Bitsery

Header only C++ binary serialization library. It is designed around the networking requirements for real-time data delivery, especially for games.

All cross-platform requirements are enforced at compile time, so serialized data do not store any meta-data information and is as small as possible.

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Features

• Cross-platform compatible.
• Optimized for speed and space.
• No code generation required: no IDL or metadata, use your types directly.
• 2-in-1 declarative control flow, same code for serialization and deserialization.
• Provides forward/backward compatibility for your types.
• Allows fine-grained serialization control using advanced serialization techniques like value ranges, entrophy encoding etc...
• Extendable for types that requires different serialization and deserialization logic (e.g. pointers, or geometry compression).
• Configurable endianess support.

Why to use bitsery

Read more about the "why" in library motivation section.

How to use it

This documentation comprises these parts:

• Tutorial - getting started.
• Reference section - all the details.

Requirements

Platforms

This library was tested on

• Windows: Visual Studio 2015, MinGW (gcc 5.2)
• Linux: GCC 5.4, GCC 6.2, Clang 3.9
• OS X Mavericks: AppleClang 8