and often performance as well
BS. Nothing can be faster than a read()/write() (or even mmap()) into a struct, because everything else would need to do more work.
and often performance as well
BS. Nothing can be faster than a read()/write() (or even mmap()) into a struct, because everything else would need to do more work.
Sure, if your structure doesn't contain any pointers and you only ever want to support one endianness and you trust your compiler to fix the machine layout of the struct forever.
Mainly the first thing. If your struct is already serial, of course serialization will be easy.
...which is true for 99.999% of the time anyway, so it's not worth worrying about.