Martin Slater writes:

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I'm using MSVC8.0, Boost 1.33.1, and software from www.webEbenezer.net to build the tests.

I had a look at your site and couldn't find any download available for your serialisation library so I could run performance comparisons, is there a link to where it can be downloaded from?

There isn't a library to download. Its an online service. It takes a high level description of an interface and sends back a C++ implementation of the interface. I used the following as a "Middle" file when I tested. Msgs (set<int>) (list<int>) (list<int>, deque<int>) } The } is unmatched - at least for now. There are a couple of hand written files that you can get from the site that go with the output from the site. See the Middleware Service page for those files. This page might be helpful: http://www.webEbenezer.net/sendsample.cc Brian Wood _______________________________________