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

From: Pfligersdorffer, Christian (Christian.Pfligersdorffer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-25 11:40:58

So, is there anything going on in this cause? I really need floating
point types so I'd love to see some progress in that. I am also willing
to do some coding if need be.

Regards,

--
Christian Pfligersdorffer
Software Engineering
www.eos.info
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Cliff Green on Wednesday, 27. June 2007 22:41:
  "Scott McMurray" <me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>FWIW, I'm currently using binary files for some work because the text 
>is huge and slow.
> 
>... down to 1.2 GiB instead of the 2.1 GiB for text ... It also makes 
>my load time drop from a few minutes to a few seconds
This has been my (somewhat limited application domain) experience, as
well. Almost all of the distributed systems I've worked on that used
binary message data passing did so for both processing speed and
compactness of the data. 
Most of the system architects understood the "brittleness" 
and drawbacks of the design (specially when floating point values were
needed), but were willing to make the tradeoff.
I'd love to be able to remove at least some of the code design and
portability drawbacks for applications needing to pass (or read / write)
binary data.
Cliff
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