Matthias Troyer writes:

On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:11 AM, brass goowy wrote:

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I have a bit of a beef with the efficient part at least in places -- http://webEbenezer.net/comparison.html . Preliminary results on Boost 1.35 and MSVC9 show only minor differences from the 1.34.1 and MSVC8 results.

For 1.35 we have optimized serialization of array-like containers such as std::vector, std::valarray, C-arrays and similar, which are most important in high performance applications. There we now have performance gains of factors of 8 or more in some cases. Have you tried timing the serialization of a vector<int> ?

Not recently. I agree that vector and C-arrays are used heavily in some domains. But there are high performance applications that can't use those exclusively. Brian Wood www.webEbenezer.net