[Python-Dev] Cloning threading.py using proccesses

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    Josiah> It would basically be something along the lines of cPickle, but
    Josiah> would only support the basic types of: int, long, float, str,
    Josiah> unicode, tuple, list, dictionary.

Isn't that approximately marshal's territory?  If you can write a faster
encoder/decoder, it might well be possible to apply the speedup ideas to
marshal.

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