def fast_encode():
# Only use in cases where you *know* the data contains only basic
# Python objects
pickler = Pickler(1)
pickler.fast = 1
dump = pickler.dump
def fast_encode(*args):
return dump(args, 1)
return fast_encode
def encode(*args): # args: (msgid, flags, name, args)
# (We used to have a global pickler, but that's not thread-safe. :-( )
# It's not thread safe if, in the couse of pickling, we call the
# Python interpeter, which releases the GIL.
# Note that args may contain very large binary pickles already; for
# this reason, it's important to use proto 1 (or higher) pickles here
# too. For a long time, this used proto 0 pickles, and that can
# bloat our pickle to 4x the size (due to high-bit and control bytes
# being represented by \xij escapes in proto 0).
# Undocumented: cPickle.Pickler accepts a lone protocol argument;
# pickle.py does not.
pickler = Pickler(1)
pickler.fast = 1
return pickler.dump(args, 1)
