Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrei@metalanguage.com> wrote in message news:e2r31o$29s$1@sea.gmane.org...
[Apologies if this appears multiple times. Apparently I can't use an invalid email address anymore, and that's caused a number of problems with my account.]
Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
"bwood" <brass@mailvault.com> wrote in message news:20060423224436.A5D61B6554B@gateway.mailvault.com...
: "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]> wrote in message :>"Ivan Vecerina" <ivec_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
:> It's not like boost::serialize currently dominates the world :> of persistent storage. : :So? I see a potencial for it to become a standard like iostreams now.
I'm glad you added the part about iostreams as I think it hits the nail on the head. I agree with Andrei's opinions of iostreams.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/browse_frm/thread /86a5a3f804c84ea4/48842ae2fd029ce6?hl=en#48842ae2fd029ce6 I don't have time to read through this huge thread regarding garbage
collection to search for iostreams related staff, but after his recent "performace" in printf article I wouldn't value his opinion in I/O domain that much.
Ouch. What did I do? I'd be glad to hear any criticism. If this is off-topic in this group, feel free to use comp.lang.c++.moderated instead. Thanks!
Andrei
Sorry, Andrei. I am really busy at the moment. I will need to dig out the article in CUJ to answer specifically. But I remember I was really disappointed at the time. I will try to reply soon.
Thanks, I'd appreciate that. Speed would be issue #1 that I didn't like about the initial version because it doesn't do any buffering; but the framework allows that very easily. That's why I didn't care to provide more than a proof of concept. The opening comment of SafeFormat.h is: // Crude writing method: writes straight to the file, unbuffered // Must be combined with a buffer to work properly (and efficiently) So that was one issue I am aware of; I didn't want to write a faster output facility, just to prove that one could be written :o). I'm sure there's other problems though. To bring this more on topic: are there any plans to implement input to complement Boost::Format? Andrei