GAP (datastructures) - Chapter 1: Introduction

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1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose and goals of this package
1.2 Overview over this manual
1.3 Feedback

### 1 Introduction

#### 1.1 Purpose and goals of this package

The datastructures package for GAP has two main goals:

- Provide abstract interfaces for commonly used datastructures

- Provide good low-level implementations for these datastructures

datastructures requires building of a kernel module for GAP to function, please refer to Chapter 2 for details; the package is not automatically loaded by GAP after it has been installed. You must load the package with `LoadPackage("datastructures");` before its functions become available.

#### 1.2 Overview over this manual

Chapter 2 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.

#### 1.3 Feedback

For bug reports, feature requests and suggestions, please use our issue tracker.

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