# serde-intern

A [Serde](https://serde.rs) addon that allows *interning* of strings and byte
sequences behind `Arc`s during deserialization.

Serde [comes with an `"rc"` feature flag](https://serde.rs/feature-flags.html)
already.
However:

> Deserializing a data structure containing reference-counted pointers will not
> attempt to deduplicate references to the same data. Every deserialized pointer
> will end up with a strong count of 1.

Unlike the stock `Rc` / `Arc` deserialization available in the main Serde crate,
these custom deserializer functions **will find duplicate values** and
instead of wrapping each of them into an individual `Arc` it **will reuse
the existing arcs**.

See [API documentation](https://docs.rs/serde-intern) for more information.

## License

Licensed under either of BSD-2-Clause Plus Patent License, or Apache License,
Version 2.0, or MIT license at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in `serde-intern` by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license,
shall be multi-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.