From 6386481024ec045d9ef991a2c975902276812508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Cuni Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:43:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add a note in the README --- README.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 294cd63..600d7f7 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -140,6 +140,14 @@ It is also possible to pack/unpack custom data types. Here is an example for ``object_pairs_hook`` callback may instead be used to receive a list of key-value pairs. +Extended types +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +It is also possible to pack/unpack custom data types using the msgpack feature +of "extended types". For example, msgpack-pypy uses it to provide very fast serialization of int/float lists on top of PyPy (experimental for now): + +https://bitbucket.org/antocuni/msgpack-pypy/src/default/msgpack_pypy.py + Advanced unpacking control ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^