[Boost-users] [Serialization] A few questions about boost::serialization

From: Sebastian.Karlsson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-08-04 04:48:32

Hi,

I'm considering using boost::serialization but have a few questions  
which I would love to get answered.

1) In the overview section performance is nowhere to be seen as a  
goal, which for my use case is very important. If I were to use the  
binary archive, how well would it perform in comparsion to a hand  
crafted optimized serialization aproach? I've seen in the examples  
that strings seems to be used to identify data, won't this create a  
large overhead for both deserilzation and storage?

2) I saw the thread about the reason for boost::any not being  
serializable. But I don't really care about portability, so in that  
case, is it possible to implement a non intrusive serialization  
aproach to boost::any? Would really appreciate some little snippet for  
that if that is the case. If that's not possible my last option would  
naturally be to make an intrusive implementation, I see no obvious  
aproach here since I can't make a virtual template function, so I'm  
kind of hoping someone could push me in the right direction if it  
comes to this.

Besides this I can only say that the library have a very slick  
interface and I really dig the design :)

// Sebastian Karlsson