6 Aug
2008
6 Aug
'08
1:50 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:13:07PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I wonder if the list cache is still worth it? I've run into trouble
with it in the recent past and I suspect that whatever benefits we got
from it in ancient times, may not be so relevant today. My first
I expect cPickle or even pickle are pretty fast, and the config.pck is a fairly straightforward data structure, isn't it? Not deeply recursive or a complicated graph. One experiment would be to create a list with, say, 100,000 random foo@example.com addresses and benchmark how much time it takes to unpickle it. I'll try to do that tomorrow on a real computer (not this laptop).
--amk