Re: [Boost-users] [serialisation]Portable Binary Archives

From: Hughes, James (jhughes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-27 03:35:30

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> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Cliff Green
> Sent: 26 June 2007 23:58
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialisation]Portable Binary Archives
> 
> > Probably answered before, but I wondered whether there is a 
> standard  
> >implementation for portable binary archives available.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "standard implementation" 
> - there are a number of commonly used portable binary 
> approaches or standards. For example, XDR (IETF standard) has 
> been around for quite a while:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4506.txt
> 
> as well as SDXF (not sure how much it is used):
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3072.txt
> 
> There's CDR, used in CORBA and other libraries or frameworks 
> where interoperability is needed:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Data_Representation
> 
> I'm sure there's a gaggle of home-grown approaches (I've 
> written some myself) as well as other industry standard approaches.
> 
> If you're talking about portable binary archives for 
> Boost.Serialization, there's been talk, but I'm not sure what 
> the status is - anyone have an implementation? I'd be willing 
> to help / work with someone on it.
> 

That's what I am looking for. We need to get the file sizes down. We
could use text (XML is great for debugging but too big for final
release), but again that has its overheads. We generally don't use
floating point so that may help us. The link I posted does have a
portable implementation which I think uses IEEE754. I just wondered if
there was an official boost:serilisation version; obviously not!!

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James

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