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   From: ootiib@hot.ee   
      
   On Thursday, 9 May 2013 16:30:02 UTC+3, Jack Adrian Zappa  wrote:   
   > The rational is to be able to transfer binary data efficiently across   
   > a medium.   
      
   You can read C++ FAQ, it has section about serialization. Then   
   you can study various libraries that support binary serialization   
   to various formats. Then you can come up with some more   
   useful suggestion how C++ can support or simplify writing such   
   libraries more efficiently. Right now it feels that you have some   
   misconceptions about serialization.   
      
   > One can enforce byte order using shifts and masks, but it   
   > is inefficient.   
      
   It is inefficient to keep data in memory in some file format. It is   
   inefficient and non-portable to keep data in file in memory   
   layout of particular platform. So something what you request   
   feels to be doomed to be fundamentally inefficient.   
      
      
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