[Python-Dev] PEP 574 (pickle 5) implementation and backport available

[Olivier Grisel]

+1 for not adding in-pickle compression as it is already very easy to
handle compression externally (for instance by passing a compressing file
object as an argument to the pickler). Furthermore, as PEP 574 makes it
possible to stream the buffer bytes directly to the file-object without any
temporary memory copy I don't see any benefit in including the compression
into the pickle protocol.

However adding lz4.LZ4File to the standard library in addition to
gzip.GzipFile and lzma.LZMAFile is probably a good idea as LZ4 is really
fast compared to zlib/gzip. But this is not related to PEP 574.

-- 
Olivier
​
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20180526/ede5d0d3/attachment.html>