[Python-Dev] Pickler/Unpickler API clarification

[Antoine Pitrou]

Michael Haggerty <mhagger <at> alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> It is easy to optimize the pickling of instances by giving them
> __getstate__() and __setstate__() methods.  But the pickler still
> records the type of each object (essentially, the name of its class) in
> each record.  The space for these strings constituted a large fraction
> of the database size.

If these strings are not interned, then perhaps they should be.
There is a similar optimization proposal (w/ patch) for attribute names:
http://bugs.python.org/issue5084

Regards

Antoine.