[Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance.

[antoine.pitrou]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b058f22b5723
changeset:   76858:b058f22b5723
branch:      3.2
parent:      76856:62659067f5b6
user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date:        Thu May 10 15:18:20 2012 +0200
summary:
  Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance.

files:
  Doc/faq/library.rst |  8 --------
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -805,14 +805,6 @@
 :mod:`shelve` library module uses pickle and (g)dbm to create persistent
 mappings containing arbitrary Python objects.
 
-A more awkward way of doing things is to use pickle's little sister, marshal.
-The :mod:`marshal` module provides very fast ways to store noncircular basic
-Python types to files and strings, and back again.  Although marshal does not do
-fancy things like store instances or handle shared references properly, it does
-run extremely fast.  For example loading a half megabyte of data may take less
-than a third of a second.  This often beats doing something more complex and
-general such as using gdbm with pickle/shelve.
-
 
 Mathematics and Numerics
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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython