David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
("Archive" implies persistency, and relying on a specific memory layout is not a way to achieve it.)
I think Robert's statement
"Here, we use the term "serialization" to mean the reversible deconstruction of an arbitrary set of C++ data structures to a sequence of bytes. [...]
Robert's statement is not at odds with what I wrote above.
What you wrote above implies additional constraints not present in Robert's statement. He doesn't say anything about persistency.
Sorry, correction: he mentions persistency as *one possible* use of the library among others. Nothing he says implies persistency is essential. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com