# ANN: JLD2 (JLD in pure Julia)

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jld2-jld-in-pure-julia/4753
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**Created:** [July 10, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jld2-jld-in-pure-julia/4753 "2017-07-10T02:41:52Z")
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#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-jld2-jld-in-pure-julia/4753/15 "2017-10-26T01:18:28Z")

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There is more I believe. As far as I know JLD(2) has trouble storing data structures which in their turn store functions. That is not a problem for serialization. So that would be a significant reason for choosing serialization over JLD(2).

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