Hartmut Kaiser writes:
> Our measurements show Boost.Serialization spends most of its time creating
> (constructing) archives and there it's mainly initializing the locale...

That seems a little different from what I've been testing. The test
looks like this:

  filebuf fb;
  fb.open("ofile", ios_base::out);

  binary_oarchive oa(fb);

  clock_t start(clock());
  oa << lst;
  clock_t end(clock());

The time to construct an oarchive is not included in the test.

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