[issue12778] JSON-serializing a large container takes too much memory
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 19 16:09:53 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> I actually looked into doing this for issue #12134, but it didn't seem
> so simple; Since C has no yield, I think the iterator would need to
> maintain its own stack to keep track of where it is in the object tree
> it's encoding...
The encoder doesn't have to be turned into an iterator. It would just need to call a given callable (fp.write) at regular intervals and that would be enough to C-accelerate dump().
My patch actually provides a good foundation for this.
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