MemoryError and Pickle

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:40 am, Peter Otten wrote:

> Fillmore wrote:
> 
>> Hi there, Python newbie here.
>> 
>> I am working with large files. For this reason I figured that I would
>> capture the large input into a list and serialize it with pickle for
>> later (faster) usage.
> 
> But is it really faster? If the pickle is, let's say, twice as large as
> the original file it should take roughly twice as long to read the data...

But the code is more complex, therefore faster.

That's how it works, right?

*wink*




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Steve
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