Theres still a serialization step, so this is not an infinite improvement. The real "zero serialization" is writing stuff 1:1 from memory to disk (or where you

Theres still a serialization step, so this is not an infinite improvement. The real "zero serialization" is writing stuff 1:1 from memory to disk (or where you want it to go). This works great in languages like C where you can make assumptions for memory layout and use mostly POD-types [1]. But even then, you still have to fixup pointers. [1]: I guess this is the reason why fread has split the amount of bytes to read into a "size of item" and "items" parameter: http://linux.die.net/man/3/fread http://linux.die.net/man/3/fread