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compress-serial
decompress-serial

5.6 Serialization Utilities

The racket/serialize library provides the functionality of serializing values. This module compresses the serialized representation.

(compress-serial sv)  list?
  sv : list?
Collapses multiple occurrences of the same module in the module map of the serialized representation, sv.

(decompress-serial csv)  list?
  csv : list?
Expands multiple occurrences of the same module in the module map of the compressed serialized representation, csv.