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Tim Peters 2003-01-27 19:38:34 +00:00
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@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ At heart, that's all the PM has. Subtleties arise for these reasons:
+ Backward compatibility and micro-optimization. As explained below,
pickle opcodes never go away, not even when better ways to do a thing
get invented. The repertoire of the PM just keeps growing over time.
So, e.g., there are now six distinct opcodes for building a Python integer,
five of them devoted to "short" integers. Even so, the only way to pickle
So, e.g., there are now five distinct opcodes for building a Python integer,
four of them devoted to "short" integers. Even so, the only way to pickle
a Python long int takes time quadratic in the number of digits, for both
pickling and unpickling. This isn't so much a subtlety as a source of
wearying complication.