Ian McCulloch wrote:
Is the bitwise_?archive_adaptor supposed to be useful for anything other than a native binary archive?
This is an alternative way of implementing the save_binary optimization. Application of this adaptor to any existing archive class will create a new archive class that includes the save_binary optimization. So it could be applied to say a, text_oarchive. But of course it would make no sense to do this as it would result in a slower archive (in text archives, save_binary renders binary output as base64 text). Also, saving data as bitwise binary maintains the representation of the host machine so the application of this adaptor would result in an archive which would be non-portable accross machines.
In what sense is it then an 'adaptor' ?
Thus I have referred to that as an "Adaptor" Robert Ramey