marshal.dumps quadratic growth and marshal.dump not allowing file-like objects

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Jun 15, 8:08 am, bkus... at gmail.com wrote:
> Indeed. I (the OP) am using a production release which has the 1k
> linear growth.
> I am seeing the problems with ~5MB and ~10MB sizes.
> Apparently this will be improved greatly in Python 2.6, at least up to
> the 32MB limit.

I've just fixed this for Py2.5.3 and Py2.6.  No more quadratic
behavior.


Raymond