pickle performance on larger objects

[Sam Penrose]

> Sam Penrose <spenrose at intersight.com> writes:
>
> > memory usage increases by about 20%, FWIW. For my particular use case
> > cPickle is still several (many ?) times slower than just recreating
> > the object by reading in a file.

Michael Hudson asks:
> Are you sure that the file doesn't have an associated .pyc?  For then
> you're testing marshal perfomance, and that's always going to kill
> pickle.  Just a thought.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The file in question is a database dump; the 
object being created a class instance with a few attributes, including 
the list of dicts referred to in my original post.
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