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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Binary and XML serialization of types
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:00:45 +0100
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:58:44 -0800 (PST), hanslad@gmail.com wrote:

> One more question: Am I on the right path here, or is there a better way
> to do binary encoding into streams?

The right way is to ensure it portable. That requires overriding default
implementations. Here you can find some examples of portable encoding of
scalar types:

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm#16.3

> I want this to perform as fast as possible.

Performance is not a big deal because stream I/O takes much more resources
than any conversions.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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