Dag
Have you used the binary option to 'dump'?
dump(object, file[, bin]) : If the optional bin argument is true, the binary
pickle format is used; otherwise the (less efficient) text pickle format is
used (for backwards compatibility, this is the default).
Daniel
Did you use the optional third argument which tells pickle to write the
file out in binary? My experience is that the difference in performance
between reading binary and ascii pickles will be substantial.
Wow. Yea that made all the difference. Runtime went from 35 to 3 seconds.
Dag