Re: [boost] RE: Serialization Library Review

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-24 07:55:21

On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 01:34 AM, Augustus Saunders wrote:

[ lots of very interesting comments deleted]
>   One last thought on the
> multiple format problem: it may be wiser to standardize all
> serialization on XML and rely on XSLT to transform into all the
> different formats we might want.

As I just mentioned in another post, this works well as long as you 
have very small data sets, but will cause huge performance problems 
once you get into gigabyte-sized archives (which are currently actually 
considered "small" in scientific computing where people for LHC at CERN 
talk about petabytes/day)

Matthias