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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ OPIC is a revolutionary serialization framework for C. Unlike traditional
approaches which walk through the in-memory objects and write it to disk, OPIC
itself is a memory allocator where all the objects created with it have the same
representation in memory and on disk. "Serializing/deserializing" is extreme
cheap with OPIC because it only requires memory dump and mmap syscalls.
cheap with OPIC, because the memory can write directly to disk, and the
deserialization is simply a mmap syscall.


OPIC is suitable for building database indexes, key-value store, or even search
engines. At the moment of writing we provide a POC hash table to demonstrate how
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DATA STRUCTURES INCLUDED
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* RobinHoodHashing, can be used as
* RobinHoodHash, can be used as
- HashMap
- HashSet
- HashMultimap
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