# ocaml-bin-prot

[`Bin_prot`](https://github.com/janestreet/bin_prot) contains functionality
for reading and writing OCaml values in a type-safe binary protocol.  These
functions are extremely efficient and provide users with a convenient and safe
way of performing I/O on any extensionally defined data type.  This means that
functions, objects, and values whose type is bound through a polymorphic
record field are not supported, but everything else is.

As of now, there is no support for cyclic or shared values.  Cyclic values
will lead to non-termination whereas shared values, besides requiring
significantly more space when encoded, may lead to a substantial increase in
memory footprint when they are read back in.