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The geners package is designed to address the problem of C++ object persistence
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in situations where the most typical data access pattern is write once read man
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(WORM). This access pattern is very common in scientific projects ? a data
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recording device or a simulation program creates the original set of objects
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which is later reused (typically, for the purposes of data analysis and
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presentation of results) by other programs. Geners is, more or less, a set of
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tools and conventions which allows its users to develop C++ classes that can be
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converted to and from a storable stream of bytes in a well-organized and
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type-safe manner. Serialization of STL containers is supported, including the
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ones added in the C++11 standard. Independent versioning of each class
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definition is allowed. Geners code depends only on the standard C++ facilities
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and on two well-established portable data compression libraries, zlib and
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bzip2
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