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diff --git a/registry/README b/registry/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..914db30a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/registry/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Registry reading, etc. + +This provides tools for dealing with the legacy binary types database +format, still in use by extensions and the core code. While the actual +binary file format is implemented by the [[store]] code, the wrapper +that turns this into a type registry is implemented here. + +While this code is primarily used in only two modes: + +* linear write / concatenate +* random access read + +The API unfortunately exposes a random-access write approach, which - +while ~unused needs before we can re-write this away from the store +backend. |