3 This provides tools for dealing with the legacy binary types database
4 format, still in use by extensions and the core code. While the actual
5 binary file format is implemented by the [[store]] code, the wrapper
6 that turns this into a type registry is implemented here.
8 While this code is primarily used in only two modes:
10 * linear write / concatenate
13 The API unfortunately exposes a random-access write approach, which -
14 while ~unused needs before we can re-write this away from the store