[boost] Re: Using Serialization for binary marshalling

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-06 20:47:46

brangdon_at_[hidden] (Dave Harris) writes:

> In-Reply-To: <c7bsah$27c$1_at_[hidden]>
> ianmcc_at_[hidden] (Ian McCulloch) wrote (abridged):
>> Nice idea.  I was thinking along the lines of how to achieve
>> high-performance, with shared memory & fast network message passing in
>> mind.
>
> I have some experience of that kind of code being quicker than code which 
> naively treats an int as 4 bytes. There was enough compression that the 
> bandwidth saving (eg on disk i/o) compensated for the complexity of the 
> code.

Me too.  You can even win on RAM cache locality.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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