Running stest.py produced these results for me: marshal enc T: 12.5195908977 marshal dec T: 0.134508715493 sencode enc T: 3.75118904777 sencode dec T: 5.86602012267 11.9369997978 0.109000205994 True
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Notice the slow "marshal enc"oding. Overall this recipe is faster than marshall for me. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list