Re: [KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH] kvm_runtest_2.py: use pickle instead of shelve when loading/saving env

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:46 +0300, Michael Goldish wrote: pickle allows more control over the load/save process. Specifically, it enables us to dump the contents of an object to disk without having to unpickle it. shelve, which uses pickle, seems to pickle and unpickle every time sync() is

[KVM-AUTOTEST PATCH] kvm_runtest_2.py: use pickle instead of shelve when loading/saving env

pickle allows more control over the load/save process. Specifically, it enables us to dump the contents of an object to disk without having to unpickle it. shelve, which uses pickle, seems to pickle and unpickle every time sync() is called. This is bad for classes that need to be unpickled only