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42 Persistence

While it is true that playing with Scheme objects in memory can yield hours of fun, sometimes you will want to save these objects to disk for re-examination later. Or maybe the interesting objects are already on disk and you want to copy them into memory.

This chapter describes various modules that comprise the database module hierarchy, and concludes with an invitation to extend the set.

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