On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 11:40 am, Peter Otten wrote: > Fillmore wrote: > >> Hi there, Python newbie here. >> >> I am working with large files. For this reason I figured that I would >> capture the large input into a list and serialize it with pickle for >> later (faster) usage. > > But is it really faster? If the pickle is, let's say, twice as large as > the original file it should take roughly twice as long to read the data...
But the code is more complex, therefore faster. That's how it works, right? *wink* -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list