Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I would like to see Proto4 include an option for compression > (zlib,bz2) or somesuch and become self-decompressing upon unpickling.
I don't see what this would bring over explicit compression: - depending on the use case, you may want to use different compression algorithms, e.g. for disk you may want higher compression ratio like bzip2/lzma, but for wire you'd prefer something fast like snappy - supporting multiple compression algorithms and levels would complicate the API - this would probably complicate the code, since you'd have to support optional compression, and have a way to indicate which format is used - that's really mixing two entirely different concepts (serialization vs compression) ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17810> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
