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

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-04 09:44:53

On Aug 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Sebastian.Karlsson_at_[hidden] wrote:

> 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?

Performance is a secondary goal that I have worked on, especially the  
serialization of large dense arrays. This is now as fast ad any hand  
crafted approach. What data structures are you interested in?

Matthias