Re: ideal interface for Random Number Generators?
On 2010-06-11 08:17:14 -1000, orz said:
Maybe, but why do you want to do this? Have you shown that text has
inherent inefficiencies that produce significant bottlenecks for your
application? For the design goals of TR1 and C++0x, text is sufficient
and simple.
Text does have major bottlenecks for both state size and runtime
speed.
Non-answer. Again: have you shown that text has inherent inefficiencies
that produce significant bottlenecks for your application? Hint: you
need to establish that text is significantly slower than your
unspecified binary approach, then analyze how often your program has to
do this and compare that with how often it does other things. One good
tool for this is a profiler.
On the rare occasions when you wouldn't otherwise be linked
with string handling code it also forces that.
Shrug. On the rare occasions when you wouldn't otherwise be linked with
the code for handling your presently unspecified binary protocol it
also forces that.
I do not know why you are acting as if text serialization and binary
serialization+deserialization are of similar complexity. Text
representation involves converting to/from base 10, packing only 3 and
a fraction bits in to each 8 bits, a variable length format, and
either scientific notation or otherwise depending upon the magnitude
of the number.
Textual representation of numeric values is already present in the
standard and in the runtime library. Specifying and implementing a
binary protocol is more complicated than specifying and not having to
implement a text-based protocol. When the text-based protocol does all
that's needed, there's no reason to use anything more complex.
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