# Serializing a tree requires a huge amount of storage

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**Category:** General Usage\
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**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serializing-a-tree-requires-a-huge-amount-of-storage/77934 "2022-03-15T22:25:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![goerch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/goerch/32/29122_2.png) [@goerch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/goerch)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serializing-a-tree-requires-a-huge-amount-of-storage/77934/2 "2022-03-15T22:32:41Z")

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We had a similar discussion [recently](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/serialize-is-prohibitively-slow-for-recursive-structs-what-am-i-missing/76276/14). But interestingly there we talked about time, not space…

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