[Boost-users] [ASIO / Serialization] How to avoid the copy?

Subject: [Boost-users] [ASIO / Serialization] How to avoid the copy?
From: Dan Eaton (daniel.eaton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-25 10:53:47

Hello,

Referring to the boost::asio "Serialization" example, and specifically to the file connection.hpp which handles serialization over sockets:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/doc/html/boost_asio/example/serialization/connection.hpp

When new data is to be received, first the message header is read, which contains the number of bytes for the body. Storage must be allocated to receive the body, and is then passed into ::read as boost::asio::buffer. For the purpose of using Serialize, it must then be converted to an std::istream, (in the example above, istringstream). As shown in the example, this requires an extra copy to be held in memory for the std::string.

What's the best route to avoid this copy?

Thanks,

Dan Eaton
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