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<h3>1 <span class="Heading">Introduction</span></h3>

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<h4>1.1 <span class="Heading">Purpose and goals of this package</span></h4>

<p>The <strong class="pkg">datastructures</strong> package for <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong> has two main goals:</p>


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<li><p>Provide abstract interfaces for commonly used datastructures</p>

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<li><p>Provide good low-level implementations for these datastructures</p>

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<p><strong class="pkg">datastructures</strong> requires building of a kernel module for <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong> to function, please refer to Chapter <a href="chap2.html#X8360C04082558A12"><span class="RefLink">2</span></a> for details; the package is not automatically loaded by <strong class="pkg">GAP</strong> after it has been installed. You must load the package with <code class="code">LoadPackage("datastructures");</code> before its functions become available.</p>

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<p>Chapter <a href="chap2.html#X8360C04082558A12"><span class="RefLink">2</span></a> describes the installation of this package. The remaining chapters describe the available datastructures in this package with a definition of the supported API and details about provided implementations.</p>

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<h4>1.3 <span class="Heading">Feedback</span></h4>

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