The compiler Picklehash api defines access to functionality creating and manipulating unique identifiers for compilation units by first serializing and then hashing them. The resulting hash values have a negligible probability of colliding, and thus may be used as a short-hand name for that version of the complete compilation unit.
The Picklehash api is implemented by the picklehash package.
The Picklehash api source code is in src/lib/compiler/front/basics/map/picklehash.api.
The above information is manually maintained and may contain errors.
api {
eqtype Picklehash;
pickle_hash_size : Int;
compare : (Picklehash , Picklehash) -> Order;
to_hex : Picklehash -> String;
from_hex : String -> Null_Or(Picklehash );
to_bytes : Picklehash -> vector_of_one_byte_unts::Vector;
from_bytes : vector_of_one_byte_unts::Vector -> Picklehash;};