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Consider using messagepack as alternative to JSON or pickles #1

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aleksandra-kim opened this issue Dec 30, 2012 · 1 comment

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aleksandra-kim commented Dec 30, 2012

Original report by Chris Mutel (Bitbucket: cmutel, GitHub: cmutel).

Based on tests on my laptop, it is ~33% faster and uses less space. The two issues are:

Strings would have to be decoded from raw bytes to Unicode
Another dependency, which would have to be installed using easy_install on windows (because it is a binary egg)

The advantages are:

Speed (especially on Windows, where a fast JSON parser might not be installed)
A safe file format to move between computers (as opposed to pickles)

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aleksandra-kim commented Feb 3, 2014

Original comment by Chris Mutel (Bitbucket: cmutel, GitHub: cmutel).

This isn't changing any time soon. Section added to documentation.

aleksandra-kim closed this as completed

aleksandra-kim added minor enhancement labels

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