Matthias Troyer wrote:
On Sep 1, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Neal D. Becker wrote:
In order to serialize, it would be helpful to add an interface to mersenne_twister to get/set the state. I don't think there is any I/F to get the state.
When we need to serialize RNGs we currently use the possibility to convert the state to a string using operator <<(std::ostream&, const RNG&) and operator >>(std::istream&, RNG&). A better serialization mechanism should, in my opinion directly use the serialization library and not go over some get_state/set_state functions, since the state might be described by more than just a container.
I'm trying to interface with boost::python pickle. I don't know if boost::serialization would be useful in this case. I wonder if anyone has tried to make boost::python pickle work via boost:serialization?