New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>:
On a 64-bit Linux machine (where C `long` is 64 bits):
>>> len(pickle.dumps(2**30))
8
>>> len(pickle.dumps(2**31))
16
>>> len(pickle.dumps(2**62))
25
>>> len(pickle.dumps(2**63))
14
This is because the old text protocol is used when the integer can fit in a C
long but not in 4 bytes:
>>> pickletools.dis(pickle.dumps(2**62))
0: \x80 PROTO 3
2: L LONG 4611686018427387904
24: . STOP
highest protocol among opcodes = 2
>>> pickletools.dis(pickle.dumps(2**63))
0: \x80 PROTO 3
2: \x8a LONG1 9223372036854775808
13: . STOP
highest protocol among opcodes = 2
----------
components: Library (Lib)
messages: 141971
nosy: pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: inefficient pickling of long integers on 64-bit builds
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.3
_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue12744>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
