Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializingcustomobject

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] question about serializingcustomobject
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-27 17:53:06

Matthias Troyer wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2010, at 22:26, Robert Ramey wrote:
>> hmm - what about tracked objects? I suggested turning off tracking
>> and Matthias told me that it was needed to send pointers.  But for
>> this to work an archive has to be reconstructed everytime to
>> re-initialize the tracking lists.  I don't want to spend a lot of
>> time on this as that means I have to delve into the MPI
>> serialization and I don't want
>> to do this.
>
> The typical use case is that the pointer structure is built once, and
> then only the values of arrays and other data members needs to be
> updated by communication. The "skeleton" creates all the objects and
> sets the pointers, and is sent only once, and thereafter only the
> "contents" is transmitted.

So tracking is effectively turned off by this archive implemenation.
Which makes sense to me from a practical standpoint.  But
it does make things harder to understand. To be fair, the
other archive classes each have their own implemention
quirks which are more or less ad hoc.  Hopefully one
day we can rationalize this to some extent.

>
> Matthias