Is xmlrpclib slow?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kent> It can be extremely slow with a lot of tags.... 

    Kent> So I would recommend that one consider bundling up the data into a
    Kent> simple data type before sending with xmlrpc.

How about first encoding your data using marshal or cpickle, then passing it
as base64?  Would only work for Python-to-Python servers (and sort of
destroy the whole idea of XML-RPC), but might improve performance
substantially...  That improves my dump/load test script substantially:

    cb40507-d:tmp% python testxmlrpc.py
    testing with xmlrpclib 0.9.8
    using FastParser
    413 dumps per second
    105 loads per second
    now using marshal to pre-encode data
    1.12e+03 dumps per second
    617 loads per second

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