Michael Haggerty <mhagger <at> alum.mit.edu> writes: > > It is easy to optimize the pickling of instances by giving them > __getstate__() and __setstate__() methods. But the pickler still > records the type of each object (essentially, the name of its class) in > each record. The space for these strings constituted a large fraction > of the database size.
If these strings are not interned, then perhaps they should be. There is a similar optimization proposal (w/ patch) for attribute names: http://bugs.python.org/issue5084 Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
