John Ericson
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Using abstract types like can help cut down on compilation time, both from scratch, and especially incremental builds during development. The idea is that `worker-protocol.hh` can declare all the (de)serializers, but only again abstract types; when code needs to use some (de)serializers, it can include headers just for the data types it needs to (de)serialize. `store-api.hh` in particular is a bit of a sledgehammer, and the data types we want to serialize have their own headers.
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