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Boost serialization performance: text vs. binary format

Should I prefer binary serialization over ascii / text serialization if performance is an issue?

Has anybody tested it on a large amount of data?

Solution

  • I used boost.serialization to store matrices and vectors representing lookup tables and some meta data (strings) with an in memory size of about 200MByte. IIRC for loading from disk into memory it took 3 minutes for the text archive vs. 4 seconds using the binary archive on WinXP.