Mark Lawrence added the comment: I couldn't find the code referenced in the changeset in the new _pickle.c. However I did find the comment that I've pasted below so I believe this issue only applies to 2.7.
/* The old cPickle had an optimization that used switch-case statement dispatching on the first letter of the type name. This has was removed since benchmarks shown that this optimization was actually slowing things down. */ ---------- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14336> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com