Re: [boost] Boost.Serialization archive constructor performance

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-26 11:41:42

Thinking about this, its very odd to me that just initializing some STL 
containers takes up so much time.

For someone that has nothing else to do I would love to see the following. A 
comprehensive analysis of where the time goes in serialization.  Most of the 
really deep and time consuming stuff is in templated inline functions - most 
of which are reducible to nothing - in theory.  I suspect that practice, 
performance is all over the map in this area.

In fact, I would be curious to see something like the above for STL in 
general.   And other boost libraries.

Microsoft used to have - up to VC6 a very nice interrupt driven profiler. 
It was very, very simple to use and didn't require instrumenting the code. 
I found it very useful.  Since I've "upgraded" to VC 7.1 I don't have it 
now.  Of course they've given me something else - but I haven't figured out 
what it is or how it works yet.  Its right up there on my list with 
figureing out what's involved in making a 64 bit program which runs on ?...

Robert Ramey