Re: [Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

From: Ákos Maróy (akos_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-26 08:47:52

Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
> Since floats are the problem with portable binary archives, why not
> punt on this issue and render floating point types (only) in ascii.
> 
> For many uses floating point is not the critical path and binary
> archives solve many problems other than floating point: endian-ness,
> native integer size differences, etc.  And those issues can be quite
> difficult to deal with otherwise.

yes, this is a wide range of applications, but for example where I'm 
using it, most of our data is in floats :) but you're right - it's best 
to get a result that's not perfect but works, first :)

Akos