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6. Pickles

One of the most important features of asdlGen is that it automatically produces functions that can read and write the data structures it generates to and from a platform and language independent external representation. This process of converting data structures in memory into a sequence of bytes on the disk is referred to as pickling. Since from a single ASDL specification asdlGen produces both data structures and pickling code for C, C++, Java, Standard ML, and Haskell, asdlGen provides an easy and efficient way to share complex data structures among these languages.

6.1. User Visible Interface

6.2. Pretty Printing Pickles

6.3. Pickle Format Details


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