On 2018-05-25, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Do you have something specific in mind?
I think compressed by default is a good idea. My quick proposal: - Use fast compression like lz4 or zlib with Z_BEST_SPEED - Add a 'compress' keyword argument with a default of None. For protocol 5, None means to compress. Providing 'compress' != None for older protocols will raise an error. The compression overhead will be small compared to the pickle/unpickle costs. If someone wants to apply their own (e.g. better) compression, they can set compress=False. An alternative idea is to have two different protocol formats. E.g. 5 and 6. One is "pickle 5" with compression, one without compression. I don't like that as much since it breaks the idea that higher protocol numbers are "better". Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
