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Bad compressibility of marshalled OCaml-data #4056

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@vicuna

Original bug ID: 4056
Reporter: @mmottl
Status: closed (set by @mshinwell on 2016-12-12T15:55:49Z)
Resolution: won't fix
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Version: 3.09.3
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Tags: patch
Monitored by: warwick dvaillancourt BenediktGrundmann @mshinwell ogasawara jm letaris @oandrieu @mmottl

Bug description

I have just finished (and attached) a patch for the latest CVS-release
of OCaml, which adds a new marshalling flag. This flag generates a
different marshalling format, which uses absolute addresses to refer
to shared values. This fixes the problem of bad compressibility of
marshalled OCaml data. See the patch header for more information.

Since the patch is quite small and does not break any existing code,
we'd be very grateful if it could be made part of the next
OCaml-release. Thanks!

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