[GiNaC-list] writing symbols and expressions into binary files

[Cristobal Navarro]

lists or matrix i meant

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Cristobal <http://www.youtube.com/neoideo>


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Cristobal Navarro <axischire at gmail.com>wrote:

> i just wanted to add that "archive_ex" and "unarchive_ex" works only and
> only for single expressions. If someone wants to save lists of matrixes like
> i needed, you can use "archive_node" which is great too.
> it can save you lots of time
> best regards,
> Cristobal
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Cristobal Navarro <axischire at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hello Alexei,
>>
>> thanks very much for you indications, i cleared up my mind now.
>> i have tested the method of archiving, it works very good! its crazy it
>> even worked for storing a whole matrix of expressions, great and perfect.
>>
>> additionally, thanks to ginac's great modularism,
>> i was able to add some extra binary header information at the beginning of
>> the same file (like the number of elements stored), because some information
>> was dynamic and unknown for the program.
>>
>> i guess ginac's archive tool internally serializes its objects, something
>> i wasnt doing on my program.
>>
>> i only have this little question (for the future), has someone worked with
>> ginac and distributed systems (clusters), ? sending and receiving ginac type
>> objects between nodes ?
>> would it be possible to send the "archive" which is serialized already
>> (maybe im completely wrong) through an MPI send/receive instruction??
>> i will eventually look into this the following weeks to come, but
>> meanwhile any answer will be very helpful to clear up the scenario.
>>
>> best regards and thank you very much
>>
>> Cristobal <http://www.youtube.com/neoideo>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Alexei Sheplyakov <
>> alexei.sheplyakov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 06:05:26PM -0400, Cristobal Navarro wrote:
>>> > is it possible to write ginac symbols and expressions into a file as
>>> binary
>>> > format??
>>>
>>> Yes. It's documented in the manual (section 5.15.4, titled as
>>> `Archiving').
>>>
>>> > i've tried this but i get segmentation fault when printing the read
>>> > variables. you can try this one file example to see the problem.
>>>
>>> That code is not going to work (with any non-POD data type). Perhaps you
>>> should read something about serialization. A good starting point is
>>> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/serialization.html
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>        Alexei
>>>
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