Re: [Boost-users] eos_portable_archive for 1.49

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] eos_portable_archive for 1.49
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-26 00:49:29

Paul Harris wrote:
> On 26 June 2012 09:09, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> The ONLY reason I need to use the portable binary archive, is because
> the usual binary archive's header is incompatible between 32 and 64
> bit.  And potentially version number integers and
> number-of-elements-in-an-array integers and other such overhead
> stuff.    

well of course that's the only reason.  binary archive can just stream
all the bits.  to be portable, each element must be considered for
endianness at a minimum.  

One could possible make this faster, but I doubt that it would
be worth the effort.

Robert Ramey

> your thoughts?
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