[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm stuck on a problem where I want to use marshal for serialization
> (yes, yes, I know (c)Pickle is normally recommended here). I favor
> marshal for speed for the types of data I use.
>
> However it seems that marshal.dumps() for large objects has a
> quadratic performance issue which I'm assuming is that it grows its
> memory buffer in constant increments. This causes a nasty slowdown for
> marshaling large objects. I thought I would get around this by passing
> a cStringIO.StringIO object to marshal.dump() instead but I quickly
> learned this is not supported (only true file objects are supported).
>
> Any ideas about how to get around the marshal quadratic issue? Any
> hope for a fix for that on the horizon? Thanks for any information.
Here's how marshal resizes the string:
newsize = size + size + 1024;
if (newsize > 32*1024*1024) {
newsize = size + 1024*1024;
}
Maybe you can split your large objects and marshal multiple objects to keep
the size below the 32MB limit.
Peter
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