Re: Writing a data structure out as binary

"Ackerley Tng [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:29:53 +0000
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Hmm I'm leaning towards Jane Street now since I'm already using core, and I
looked at bin_prot but was hoping for an example or something. How do you
guys normally work with Jane Street's stuff? The documentation isn't always
very good.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 9:55 PM Ashish Agarwal [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners], <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Jane Street also provides bin_prot, a binary serialization format.
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> [email protected]> wrote:
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> BigArrays support the Marshal module from the standard library. Have you
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