Re: [boost] The need for a 1.35.1 release

From: brass goowy (brass_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-19 01:02:07

Matthias Troyer writes:
>On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:11 AM, brass goowy wrote: 
>> 
>> I have a bit of a beef with the efficient part at least in places -- http://webEbenezer.net/comparison.html 
>> . 
>> Preliminary results on Boost 1.35 and MSVC9 show only minor 
>> differences from the 1.34.1 and MSVC8 
>> results. 
>
>For 1.35 we have optimized serialization of array-like containers such 
>as std::vector, std::valarray, C-arrays and similar, which are most 
>important in high performance applications. There we now have 
>performance gains of factors of 8 or more in some cases. Have you 
>tried timing the serialization of a vector<int> ? 

Not recently.   I agree that vector and C-arrays are used heavily in 
some domains.  But there are high performance applications 
that can't use those exclusively.

Brian Wood
www.webEbenezer.net