[boost] Re: Release 1.33 [serialization] [variant]

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-06 09:06:42

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>One question, as I'm not familiar with the serialization library.  What
>>effect do the proposed changes have on those users of variant who do not
>>need/want serialization support?  Obviously there is the addition
>>#include, but does this imply overhead, or is the header simply forward
>>declares in the spirit of <iosfwd>?
> 
> 
> Implement  everything in separate header (f.e.
> boost/variant/serialization.hpp) and there wouldn't be any cost for people
> who don't need that
> 
> Gennadiy

As it stands the implementaion is intrusive, separate header won't work. 
    The author added a couple of internal vistior types. But I will have 
a look and see exactly what the story is, I didn't think of this when I 
cleaned it up.  I also notice that what I put up has debugging cruft in 
it that I overlooked, sorry if anybody played with it and it didn't work...

troy d. straszheim