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Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance.

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Antoine Pitrou 2012-05-10 15:18:20 +02:00
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@ -805,14 +805,6 @@ still can't store things like open files, sockets or windows), and the
:mod:`shelve` library module uses pickle and (g)dbm to create persistent
mappings containing arbitrary Python objects.
A more awkward way of doing things is to use pickle's little sister, marshal.
The :mod:`marshal` module provides very fast ways to store noncircular basic
Python types to files and strings, and back again. Although marshal does not do
fancy things like store instances or handle shared references properly, it does
run extremely fast. For example loading a half megabyte of data may take less
than a third of a second. This often beats doing something more complex and
general such as using gdbm with pickle/shelve.
Mathematics and Numerics
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