I have written some test  for the different kind of serialization archives in my application.<br>In the test below the only difference is the kind of archive used<br> ( and use of ios::binary for the binary streams)<br><br clear="all">
ANode:: ...test_node_tree_persistence_text                       file_size: 4014<br>ANode:: ...test_node_tree_persistence_binary                   file_size: 5351<br>ANode:: ...test_node_tree_persistence_portable_binary  file_size: 2878<br>
<br>What I don&#39;t understand is why should the binary archive serialization<br>file size be larger than text ?<br><br>-- <br>   Best regards,<br>Ta,<br>    Avi<br><br>