Re: OpenMPI vs. Octave 2.9.x

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Oct-2006, Tom Holroyd wrote:

| > Just as a suggestion, a piece of code that would make MPITB maintenance
| > a kid's game would be a routine for "serializing" Octave datatypes.
| 
| I've been looking at this a bit, and most of the code is already 
| there, in the "load/save" sections.
| 
| I'm also very interested in this ...
| 
| The idea is to be able to send an arbitrary Octave object over a 
| serial data link. The load/save code writes to a file but if it 
| could be abstracted a bit to write to an arbitrary receiver ...

The core functions write to std::ostream& and read from std::istream&
objects, so if you can write the code you need using those stream
objects, the rest should already be done for you.

jwe