Maciej Sobczak writes:

A high-level solution - and the one that is reasonably portable - would need to be coupled/supplemented with serializer/deserializer, which actually already exists in Boost. In this context the integration with Boost would indeed make it an interesting exercise, except for the fact that the Boost serialization library is not very fast.

I opened trac 2945 to suggest a performance improvement related to associative containers that could be fairly easily addressed. It doesn't seem to be much of a priority at this point.

My personal and humble opinion is that such a couple would fall out of your intended/typical benchmarks. How would you promote it then? Who would constitute the target audience? Companies with no qualms about throwing money at faster hardware?

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