Kenny Riddile wrote:
My question wasn't about how to write a GIL image to a file, it was about the most efficient way to serialize it to a boost archive. The class that owns the GIL image in my case also has other state and the entire class instance needs to be serializable. Obviously I can get the raw data and serialize that out, but when reading in from the archive wouldn't I have to read it in to a temporary buffer and then use that buffer to reconstruct the GIL image? I'd rather not perform extra copies of pixel data like that if I don't have to.
In recent versions of Boost, a save_array function is available. This might be the most efficient way to do it. However, I don't know what needs to be done when deserializing so you should look into it more :-) -- Sohail Somani http://uint32t.blogspot.com