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+The rencode module is similar to bencode from the BitTorrent project.
+For complex, heterogeneous data structures with many small elements,
+r-encodings take up significantly less space than b-encodings.
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+This version of rencode is a complete rewrite in Cython to attempt to
+increase the performance over the pure Python module written by Petru
+Paler, Connelly Barnes et al.