Eric Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've done some benchmarking while attempting to serialize my (large)
> graph data structure with cPickle; I'm seeing superlinear performance
> (plotting it seems to suggest n^2 where n is the number of nodes of my
> graph), in the duration of the pickle.dump calls and I can't quite
> figure out why.

Try gc.disable() before loading the pickle, and gc.enable() after.

> Is cPickle's behavior known to be O(n^2)?

No, but the garbage collector's sometimes is.
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