Re: [boost] best way to serialize a GIL image

Subject: Re: [boost] best way to serialize a GIL image
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-25 20:37:34

Kenny Riddile wrote:
> My question wasn't about how to write a GIL image to a file, it was
> about the most efficient way to serialize it to a boost archive.  The
> class that owns the GIL image in my case also has other state and the
> entire class instance needs to be serializable.  Obviously I can get the
> raw data and serialize that out, but when reading in from the archive
> wouldn't I have to read it in to a temporary buffer and then use that
> buffer to reconstruct the GIL image?  I'd rather not perform extra
> copies of pixel data like that if I don't have to.

It's not save_array, it is make_array :-)

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/serialization/doc/wrappers.html#arrays

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