[Python-Dev] Python startup time: String objects (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Mar 25 13:25:18 EST 2004

Armin suggested to remove marshal entirely and use pickle for storing compiled byte code. It works fine with the version of pickle that ships with Stackless, but is unfortunately slower than marshal.

Even with cPickle?

I'm still worried about your patch, because it changes all uses of marchal, not just how code objects are marshalled. The marshal module is used by other apps...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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