Re: [Boost-users] Question regarding boost binary serializer which is eating 90GB of memory, while re-reading the same content.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Question regarding boost binary serializer which is eating 90GB of memory, while re-reading the same content.
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-20 16:42:10

On 1/19/18 11:52 PM, dinesh kumar via Boost-users wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Greetings for the day.
> 
> I am trying to understand the behavior of Boost's binary 
> serializer(Boost version 1.65). Please consider the below example, where 
> I am inserting one record into the file, and trying to read the same 
> record 5 times.
> 

It would not occur to me to use the serialization library in this case. 
The serialization library saves/restores a whole data structure of 
arbitrary complexity.  It does it with one call.  It doesn't really 
support "picking apart" the saved file.  It's not a file protocol - it's 
much, much more than that.  If you intervene in the process, you'll 
likely be surprised at what you get.

Robert Ramey