Jeff Garland <jeff <at> crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
So, for example, when I recieve an inbound message I'm going to unserialize whatever it is into a native structure. So I have to allocate (or take from a pool) and go field by field thru the data anyway realizing it into the native structure. Then I process the data. I'll never make any copies in the processing core b/c I'm going to pass around shared_ptr's or something.
Going outbound I've built up a complex structure that needs to be serialized into a buffer that gets sent after I'm done. I'm passing this all around using smart pointers until I get to the socket stream and it's ready to go outbound.
I think it would be very nice if we could have a higly efficient solution to the general and recurring problem of the construction of an object from a data stream together with the deconstruction of an object into a data stream. Patterns touching on this topic have been written by, among others, Steve Berzuk at www.berczuk.com and Dirk Riehle (http://www.riehle.org/computer- science/research/1996/plop-1996-serializer.pdf) Tommy