C++ Serialization Performance

Question

I\'m building a distributed C++ application that needs to do lots of serialization and deserialization of simple data structures that\'s being passed between different proce

Answer 1

boost.serialization doesn't care about string encodings or endianness. You'll be similarly well off not using it if that matters to you.

You might want to look into ICE from ZeroC: http://www.zeroc.com/

It works similar to CORBA, except that it's entirely specced and defined by the company. The upside is that the implementations work as intended, since there aren't all that many. The downside is that if you're using a language they don't support, you're out of luck.