Andrew Dalke wrote: > This is with Python 2.3; the stock one provided by Apple > for my Mac.
Ahh that is the difference. I'm running Python 2.4. I've checked my benchmarks on a friends machine, also in Python 2.4, and received the same results as my machine. > I expected the numbers to be like this because the marshal > code is used to make and read the .pyc files and is supposed > to be pretty fast. It would appear that the new version 1 format introduced in Python 2.4 is much slower than version 0, when using the dumps function. Thanks for your feedback Andrew! Sw. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
