Re: [Boost-users] serialization of standard unordered containers

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] serialization of standard unordered containers
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-29 12:24:26

Bjorn Reese wrote:
>> On 07/29/2013 01:20 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
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>>> I don't know what "non-intrusively" means in this context.
>>
>> In this context it means that you do not have to alter any Boost
>> classes (for further elaboration please see the Boost.Serialization
>> documentation on free functions.)
>>
>>> I looked at the example, and the thought of trying to implement
>>> something similar for unordered sets sent me straight back to my
>>> user-level hole; I'll wait until someone who understands how this
>>> is supposed to work gets around to implementing it (it isn't, I
>>> assume, obvious even to those who have developed code for boost,
>>> otherwise it would, I expect, have been done already). I'll just
>>> live with old-fashioned sets in the meantime; they're fast enough
>>> for my current use-cases.
>>
>> It is less intimidating than it looks. You can simply copy the
>> boost/serialization/set.hpp header and replace the type. In just five
>> minutes I created the attached example that uses
>> std:tr1::unordered_set.
>>

Note that there is a trac item which has been submitted to support
unordered containers.  I haven't had time to add it in.  I'm also
concerned about the consumption of testing time entailed by
adding a few additional tests.

Robert Ramey

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