I looked at the email and really didn't understand what you wanted the
library to do that it doesn't already do. I could have starting a back and
forth trying to figure this out, but I think it would better just to
summarize what the library does do.
The library saves and restores any data structures which can be represented
in C++.
Soooooooo. If you have some dataset which cannot fit into memory all at
once, its not really representable as a C++ data structure. What you would
have is a C++ data structure for handling data too large to fit all at once
in memory. Presumably you already have some sort of infrastructure for
handling this data (or plan to build one). If what you are asking is
whether serialization library provides such an infrastructure, the answer
would be No - it does not.
Howeever, it might still be helpful. Suppose you have some sort set up some
sort of code for paging, on-demand load or what ever implemented in C++
which pointed to or managed some sort of off-line storage, the C++
implemenation could save its state and restore it which seems to me would be
what you want.
Its also possible that the serialization library might be used to save and
restore pieces at a time.
Sooooo, I don't think the serialization library addresses what you want, but
it may (or may not) be helpful in achieving your goal.
Robert Ramey
"Sean Cavanaugh"