[Rock-dev] cereal serialization library anyone?

[Leif Christensen]

Hi,

for my current project I am thinking of switching from Boost
Serialization to cereal [1] (or maybe google protocol buffers [2]). Some
things that look nice at first glance are:

- smaller binary representation, less metadata than boost serialization
- faster
- header only
- sort-of-compatible to old Boost serialization code
- out of the box support for standard lib containers

It seems to depend on C++11, which is not a problem for me now on the
library level, but may become a problem in Rock-Integration later on?

Has someone used it and maybe wants to share some insight? I guess the
enivre devs already had a look?

Best,
Leif

[1] http://uscilab.github.io/cereal/
[2] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
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