The new C++ serialization library supporting backward and forward compatibility

摘要

We describe new programming library cereal_fwd supporting serialization (marshalling) with forward and backward compatibility as well as portability between different platforms. The cereal_fwd is able to serialize arbitrary set of C++ data structures, including variable length integer encoding, floating number support, string (text support), deep pointer serialization and deserialization, polymorphic pointers and STL collections. This library supports selected for its space efficiency. This article describes the proposed method, and benchmarking test comparing this library to: Boost.Serialization, Protocol Buffers, C++ cereal.