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The serialization of matrices works in the same manner as the serialization of vectors. The following example demonstrates the (de-)serialization of dense and sparse matrices:
using blaze::rowMajor;
using blaze::columnMajor;
// Serialization of both matrices
{
blaze::StaticMatrix<double,3UL,5UL,rowMajor> D;
blaze::CompressedMatrix<int,columnMajor> S;
// ... Resizing and initialization
// Creating an archive that writes into a the file "matrices.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ofstream> archive( "matrices.blaze" );
// Serialization of both matrices into the same archive. Note that D lies before S!
archive << D << S;
}
// Reconstitution of both matrices
{
blaze::DynamicMatrix<double,rowMajor> D1;
blaze::DynamicMatrix<int,rowMajor> D2;
// Creating an archive that reads from the file "matrices.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ifstream> archive( "matrices.blaze" );
// Reconstituting the former D matrix into D1. Note that it is possible to reconstitute
// the matrix into a differrent kind of matrix (StaticMatrix -> DynamicMatrix), but that
// the type of elements has to be the same.
archive >> D1;
// Reconstituting the former S matrix into D2. Note that is is even possible to reconstitute
// a sparse matrix as a dense matrix (also the reverse is possible) and that a column-major
// matrix can be reconstituted as row-major matrix (and vice versa). Note however that also
// in this case the type of elements is the same!
archive >> D2
}
Note that also in case of matrices it is possible to (de-)serialize matrices with vector or matrix elements:
// Serialization
{
blaze::CompressedMatrix< blaze::DynamicMatrix< blaze::complex<double> > > mat;
// ... Resizing and initialization
// Creating an archive that writes into a the file "matrix.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ofstream> archive( "matrix.blaze" );
// Serialization of the matrix into the archive
archive << mat;
}
// Deserialization
{
blaze::CompressedMatrix< blaze::DynamicMatrix< blaze::complex<double> > > mat;
// Creating an archive that reads from the file "matrix.blaze"
blaze::Archive<std::ifstream> archive( "matrix.blaze" );
// Reconstitution of the matrix from the archive
archive >> mat;
}
Note that just as the vector serialization, the matrix serialization is restricted by a few important rules:
- matrices cannot be reconstituted as vectors (and vice versa)
- the element type of the serialized and reconstituted matrix must match, which means that on the source and destination platform the general type (signed/unsigned integral or floating point) and the size of the type must be exactly the same
- when reconstituting a
StaticMatrix
, the number of rows and columns must match those of the serialized matrix
In case an error is encountered during (de-)serialization, a std::runtime_exception
is thrown.
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