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  2. libxml2 - Wikipedia

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    Written in the C programming language, libxml2 provides bindings to C++, Ch, [3] XSH, C#, Python, Swift, Kylix/Delphi and other Pascals, Ruby, Perl, Common Lisp, [4] and PHP. [5] It was originally developed for the GNOME project , but can be used outside it. libxml2's code is highly portable [ 6 ] since it only depends on standard ANSI C ...

  3. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    Python supports a wide variety of string operations. Strings in Python are immutable, so a string operation such as a substitution of characters, that in other programming languages might alter the string in place, returns a new string in Python. Performance considerations sometimes push for using special techniques in programs that modify ...

  4. Character literal - Wikipedia

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    A character literal is a type of literal in programming for the representation of a single character's value within the source code of a computer program. Languages that have a dedicated character data type generally include character literals; these include C , C++ , Java , [ 1 ] and Visual Basic . [ 2 ]

  5. Associative array - Wikipedia

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    The basic definition of a dictionary does not mandate an order. To guarantee a fixed order of enumeration, ordered versions of the associative array are often used. There are two senses of an ordered dictionary: The order of enumeration is always deterministic for a given set of keys by sorting.

  6. String interning - Wikipedia

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    String interning speeds up string comparisons, which are sometimes a performance bottleneck in applications (such as compilers and dynamic programming language runtimes) that rely heavily on associative arrays with string keys to look up the attributes and methods of an object. Without interning, comparing two distinct strings may involve ...

  7. Dictionary coder - Wikipedia

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    A dictionary coder, also sometimes known as a substitution coder, is a class of lossless data compression algorithms which operate by searching for matches between the text to be compressed and a set of strings contained in a data structure (called the 'dictionary') maintained by the encoder. When the encoder finds such a match, it substitutes ...

  8. Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski - Wikipedia

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    LZSS is a dictionary coding technique. It attempts to replace a string of symbols with a reference to a dictionary location of the same string. The main difference between LZ77 and LZSS is that in LZ77 the dictionary reference could actually be longer than the string it was replacing.

  9. Serialization - Wikipedia

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    Flow diagram. In computing, serialization (or serialisation, also referred to as pickling in Python) is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored (e.g. files in secondary storage devices, data buffers in primary storage devices) or transmitted (e.g. data streams over computer networks) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer ...