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

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-25 12:18:20

On Nov 25, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> To summarize how we arrived here.
>>> =================================
>>
>>  <snip>
>>
>>> e) So it has been proposed binary_iarchive be re-implemented
>>> in the following way
>>>
>>> iarchive - containg default implementation of load_array
>>>   binary_iarchive - ? presumablu contains implementaion of  
>>> load_array
>>>     in terms of currently defined load_binary
>>>
>>> Its not clear whether all archives would be modified in
>>> this way or just binary_iarchive.
>
>> This is extremely discouraging.  After I stated many times that our
>> design had been changed so as NOT to modify any code in the
>> serialization library, after we put the array-optimized archives in a
>> separate sub-namespace so that they could live alongside the existing
>> ones in the library, after I offered to put all of the code in some
>> remote part of Boost not associated with the serialization library,
>> you state that we are proposing to change the serialization library
>> code.
>>
>
> I was referring to :
>
>> archive/array/binary_iarchive.hpp

Look, Dave proposed it in a sub-directory and a corresponding  
subnamespace array

Matthias