Re: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?

Subject: Re: [boost] How do folks test serialization code?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-05 15:50:04

John Maddock wrote:
>
> You mean rely on the usual streaming << >> operators?
>
> For sure I could do that, but full string conversion is crazy
> expensive compared to the byte-by-byte scheme I have now.

Hmm - I presume you've already had to implement these
operators.  So you'd be done for text based archives like
text_archve and xml_archive.  For these cases, I wouldn't
worry about the expense as these archives are already
slow enough due to all the streaming conversions they
do already, I doubt anyone would notice - oh and don't
forget about xml parsing.  So for these archive classes:

a) performance isn't really an issue.
b) it's helpful to be able to read floats/double, etc as
human readable strings.
c) it consumes no extra development time. - it's free!

I'm thinking the only place where making special
overload would make sense would be for portable
binary archive - which as far as I know doesn't
currently support floating point types in any case.

Hmmm - maybe you want to generalize your
method to any size float/double and include it
as part of portable binary archive?  That would
be great!

Robert Ramey