Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.MPI] SendingReceiving an array "view"
From: John Phillips (phillips_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-29 17:47:13
Joel Falcou wrote:
> I have a small class view<T> that containes a T* and a size. When I
> send/receive view using Boost.MPI, I want transfert the actual n data
> pointed by the view pointer and send the size. On receiving, i will
> receive the size, checks if they are compatible and receive the data
> into the zone pointed by the pointer of the receiving view. Of course, I
> may do something more complex than send/Receive, like all_2_all etc. So
> i was thinking to give view<T> a proper serialize function so
> boost.serialization may kick in. As the behavior of sending and
> receiving is different, I use the load/save idiom to separate the
> behavior. The question is then, how to serialize the n elements poitned
> by a raw pointer to those data in an efficient way ?
>
> Regards
Do you have any constraints on what the underlying type for the
elements will be?
John