boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org on Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:51 PM:
Bijan wrote:
PS: The portable binary archive that comes with the library examples should be complete, maybe just the comment was not removed. Robert Ramey often pointed out that this was sponsored by someone and will be in 1.36. I did not look at it yet, though.
good to know :)
Under boost_1_36_0\libs\serialization\example there are some hpp and cpp files for portable binary format (portable_binary_archive.hpp, portable_binary_iarchive.cpp ...) and I am wondering how performant the code is.
This was actually tested on various platforms of different 32/64 endian combinations. And the test consisted of running ALL serialization tests as is done with the "official" archive implementations. To me, the main proble is that its missing support for floating point types. Including such support in a definitive, portable manner would be a significant effort which so far no one has deigned to undertake.
Robert Ramey
Hi Robert! I am confused. Are you saying your "sponsored extension to the portable binary archive example" does not include floating point support? Please clarify what is in 1.36 and what is planned as this is entirely not clear to me - and others I'd say from various peoples' contributions. I'm sorry if I add to the portable binary archive confusion by using the same names as your examples. I do not completely go against renaming my classes if it helps. What do you mean? Regards, -- Christian Pfligersdorffer Software Engineering http://www.eos.info