[Speed] performance: remove "pure python" pickle benchmarks?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 April 2017 at 01:47, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the C version of pickle lacks the extensibility of the
> pure Python, so the pure Python has to be used in some cases.  One such
> example is the `cloudpickle` project, which extends pickle to
> support many more types, such as local functions.  `cloudpickle` is
> often used by distributed executors to allow shipping Python code for
> remote execution on a cluster.

Perhaps a more suitable benchmark could be formulated based on that?

That way the benchmark could be pinned to a particular version of
cloudpickle, and it would be testing a known real-world use case that
explicitly requires the pure Python version of the underlying pickle
module.

Cheers,
Nick.

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