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authorAntonio Cuni <anto.cuni@gmail.com>2013-10-19 18:43:16 +0200
committerAntonio Cuni <anto.cuni@gmail.com>2013-10-19 18:43:16 +0200
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add a note in the README
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@@ -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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^