[Python-3000] pickle, cPickle, and the standard library (was Re: [Python-Dev] inst_persistent_id)

[Jesus Cea]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
| On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
|> (*) I can only speculate that it's because Jim, whose ZODB is probably
|> pickle's most intensive user,
|
| Maybe, but I'm not sure.

Any persistence system is pickle intensive. Aside ZODB, we have Durus
also. Do not forget remote call systems, like Pyro or most instances of
parallel python attempts.

pickle/cpickle performance is important.

In fact, I find "disturbing" that "bencode" (from BitTorrent), done 100%
in python, is faster that cPickle. Yes, "bencode" can't encode arbitrary
objects, but still...

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