[Mailman-Developers] Re: Why both a .msg and .db in qfiles?

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:57:01 -0400 
Barry A Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:

> For something as simple as a dictionary (which the metadata is), I
> believe so.  I did some benchmarking quite a while back, but don't
> remember the details.  Note though that marshals are easier to break
> in odd ways -- they're basically a tool too support .pycs so were
> never terribly robust.  Pickles generally better for object trees too,
> especially if you might have cycles.  OTOH, binary fast pickles for
> simple data structures might perform equally well.

Points briefly at Jelly and Banana:

  http://twistedmatrix.com/products/spread

I've been pleased with the performance curves of both in early testing
here.

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