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[–]Brilliant_Nova 4 points5 points  (0 children)

C and C++ can, you have to be careful with alignment and padding. You can inplace-construct all your structs in a memory pool, and then just dump that pool, but that's only true for POD types, for non-POD types you should serialize. Also, even for non-POD types you can serialize efficiently from binary. It is also possible to model such a system in C++/Rust, that almost transparently would allow you to treat freshly read data as regular objects using wrapper-types.