pickle.load() extremely slow performance

[Steve Holden]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:57:54 -0500, Jim Garrison <jhg at acm.org> wrote:
>> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>> Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes:
>>>> 3.1a1 is out and I believe it has the io improvements.
>>>
>>> Massive ones, too. It'd be interesting to see your results on the alpha.
>>
>> On 3.1a1 the unpickle step takes 2.4 seconds, an 1875% improvement.
> 
> Surely you mean a 94.7% improvement?
> 
Well, since it's now running almost twenty times faster, the speed has
increased by 1875%. Not sure what the mathematics of improvement are ...

regards
 Steve
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