Actually, Emacs can serialize/deserialize hash table directly via
prin1-to-string & read

```
(let ((ht (make-hash-table)))
  (puthash "test" "value" ht)
  (format "%S" ht))
```

You can use `read` to "parse" the string returned by that snippet and
get a hash table.

Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:

>  I’ve attached a pure Emacs Lisp implementation of persistent key value store.
>
> [4. resist!.el --- application/emacs-lisp; resist!.el]...
>
> [5. ATT00001.htm --- text/html; ATT00001.htm]...


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