"Alex Vinokur" <al****@big-foot.com> wrote in message
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Are data compression methods used as the serialization technique?
They are used as one possible serialization method
by some applications, those that need it. Other
applications use some other technique, depending
upon their needs. E.g. If I serialize some text
for purposes of transmitting to a printer, I certainly
don't want to compress or 'encrypt' it.
This isn't really a C++ question, but a design question,
perhaps better addressed in e.g. comp.programming
-Mike