Re: [boost] [serialization] fast array serialization (10x speedup)

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-19 13:47:08

On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:29 PM, David Abrahams wrote:

> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>
>>> I can't parse that.  "That's not the same replace of the general
>>> solution...?"
>>>
>>
>>
>>>> Basically Mattias enhancement is an exploitation of a special  
>>>> cases.
>>>> That's actually a very good idea.  But that's not the same  
>>>> replacING
>>>>  the general solution with something more intricate and more
>>>> fragil -
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>> at no improvment in performance.
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> No improvement in performance? Huh?
>>>
>>
>> All the options heretofore discussed result in exactly the same  
>> run-time
>> performance.
>>
>
> ?? Matthias is reporting a 10x speedup in some (rather important)
> cases.

Robert means that implementing the fast array serialization as a  
special overload an archive instead of in the serialize function will  
give identical performance. But there are other problems with that  
approach.

Matthias