[Python-Dev] [ 654866 ] pickle and cPickle not equivalent

[Steve Holden]

> > Here is another thought that might outway the performance concerns: for
> > whatever reason, all instances of new-style classes (even with refcount
> > == 1, or perhaps because they don't have a refcount == 1) *are* getting
> > put in the cPickle memo.
>
> Pickling of new-style classes is currently done using a Python helper.
> I am still hoping that I'll be able to dig myself out of the pile of
> Zope work that I'm currently under, and then I'd like to work on
> making pickling of new-style classes a lot more efficient.  So please
> don't use this argument to cripple pickle any further.
>

I'm not a crippled pickle, I'm a crippled pickle's son
and I'll be finished crippling pickles when the pickle crippling's done.

Sorry. Been working too hard ...
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