[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 3154 for 3.4?
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Nov 18 23:08:52 CET 2013
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:02:31 -0600
Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Guido]
> >> Clearly the framing is the weakest point of the PEP (== elicits the most
> >> bikeshedding). I am also unsure about the value of framing when pickles are
> >> written to strings.
>
> [Antoine]
> > It hasn't much value in that case,
>
> It has _no_ value in that case, yes? It doesn't appear to have _much_
> value in the case of a seekable stream, either - the implementation
> has always been free to read ahead then. The real value appears to be
> in cases of non-seekable streams.
>
>
> > but the cost is also small (8 bytes every 64KB, roughly).
>
> >> That's small if your pickle is large, but for small pickles it can add up.
>
> Which is annoying. It was already annoying when the PROTO opcode was
> introduced, and the size of small pickles increased by 2 bytes. That
> added up too :-(
Are very small pickles that size-sensitive? I have the impression that
if 8 bytes vs. e.g. 15 bytes makes a difference for your application,
you'd be better off with a hand-made format.
Regards
Antoine.
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