On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:57:01 -0400 Barry A Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
For something as simple as a dictionary (which the metadata is), I believe so. I did some benchmarking quite a while back, but don't remember the details. Note though that marshals are easier to break in odd ways -- they're basically a tool too support .pycs so were never terribly robust. Pickles generally better for object trees too, especially if you might have cycles. OTOH, binary fast pickles for simple data structures might perform equally well.
Points briefly at Jelly and Banana:
http://twistedmatrix.com/products/spread
I've been pleased with the performance curves of both in early testing here.
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