[issue19219] speed up marshal.loads()
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Oct 11 16:34:55 CEST 2013
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
> I ran into this when developing version 3. The reason is that while
> the marshal format includes the version information in its header,
> it isn't actually verified on loading. IIRC. You specify the
> expected format to the function, or something like that. So, if you
> don't do this, you get errors when loading previously generated .pyc
> files.
Exactly (I also tried this :-)). The problem is the version number
is *outside* of the marshal format: e.g. it's in the pyc file header.
When freezing a module (see frozen.c), the version number isn't included.
So our freedom is quite limited here: we have to support legacy frozen
modules.
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