Re: [Boost-users] cross-platfrom binary serialization?

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-27 20:52:12

On 27 Aug 2008, at 15:29, Robert Ramey wrote:

> Daryle Walker wrote:
>
>> I have an alternate suggestion: what about continued fractions?  Turn
>> the floating point value into a list of integers.  This works no
>> matter what f.p. systems the source and destination use.  You just
>> need a portable integer serialization format.
>
> which we already have.
>
>>
>> ...
>>
>
> I'm don't have enough time to review the suggestion in the
> detail it probably deserves.  But a cursory look shows
> a lot of imagination.

It will just be horribly inefficient. A text representation will be  
faster and more compact.

Matthias