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+# NimVM - Bytecode Serialization Standard
+
+## Rationale
+This document aims to lay down a simple, extensible and linear format for serializing and deserializing
+compiled NimVM's code to a buffer (be it an actual OS file or an in-memory stream).
+
+## Disclaimer
+----------------------------------------------
+The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
+"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119).
+
+Literals in this document will be often surrounded by double quotes to make it obvious they're not part of a sentence. To
+avoid ambiguity, this document will always specify explicitly if double quotes need to be considered as part of a term or not,
+which means that if it is not otherwise stated they are to be considered part of said term. In addition to quotes, literals
+may be formatted in monospace to make them stand out more in the document.
+
+TODO
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