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# ocaml-bin-prot
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[`Bin_prot`](https://github.com/janestreet/bin_prot) contains functionality
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for reading and writing OCaml values in a type-safe binary protocol. These
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functions are extremely efficient and provide users with a convenient and safe
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way of performing I/O on any extensionally defined data type. This means that
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functions, objects, and values whose type is bound through a polymorphic
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record field are not supported, but everything else is.
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As of now, there is no support for cyclic or shared values. Cyclic values
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will lead to non-termination whereas shared values, besides requiring
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significantly more space when encoded, may lead to a substantial increase in
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memory footprint when they are read back in.
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