pickle vs .pyc
Hrvoje Niksic
hniksic at srce.hr
Wed Jun 2 16:46:49 EDT 1999
Michael Vezie <mlv at pobox.com> writes:
> from cache import fast,slow
>
> and it's right there. It's compiled, and seems really fast (loading
> a 50k file in .12 seconds).
I understand that .pyc files use marshal. Maybe this is simply a
matter of marshal being faster than cPickle? Have you tried using
marshal directly?
(It makes sense for pickling to be slower than marshaling because it
does more; for example, it takes care about recursive relationships
and such.)
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