[Python-Dev] Python startup time: String objects

[Guido van Rossum]

> Armin suggested to remove marshal entirely and use pickle
> for storing compiled byte code. It works fine with the version
> of pickle that ships with Stackless, but is unfortunately slower
> than marshal.

Even with cPickle?

I'm still worried about your patch, because it changes all uses of
marchal, not just how code objects are marshalled.  The marshal module
*is* used by other apps...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)