Re: [boost] Boost.Serialization archive constructor performance

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-26 17:07:29

Jarl Lindrud wrote:
> Kim Barrett <kab <at> irobot.com> writes:
>
>>
>> I've been experimenting with the Boost.Serialization library, to
>> decide whether to use it in a project I'm working on. If it weren't
>> for some performance issues, the decision of whether to use this
>> library would be a no-brainer. Because it seemed otherwise so
>> promising, I've spent some time investigating these performance
>> issues, and have a couple of suggestions for improvements that would
>> address them. (Obviously these suggestions are for post-1.33
>> release.)
>>
>
> I can second Kim's experience; I've written a marshalling framework
> myself, and found that the frequent creation and deletion of
> Boost.Serialization archives became a bottleneck in the whole system.

By the way, I'm still interested in intergrating your code into my interfaces
library. I haven't had time to work on it for about three months, but I'm
looking forward to starting to work on it in a few weeks.

Jonathan