From: Hughes, James (jhughes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-27 12:36:00
>
> > That's what I am looking for. We need to get the file sizes
> down. We
> > could use text (XML is great for debugging but too big for final
> > release), but again that has its overheads. We generally don't use
> > floating point so that may help us. The link I posted does have a
> > portable implementation which I think uses IEEE754. I just
> wondered if
> > there was an official boost:serilisation version; obviously not!!
>
> I don't think binary archives are going to be smaller than
> the equivalent text archive. native binary archives are
> built for speed, text for portability, and xml to satisfy
> those who feel they need it.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
Thanks for that comment on sizes Robert - will bring that to the table
when we next talk about serialisation here!!!!
James
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