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Mon Nov 18 17:10:15 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130326.html

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:48:27 -0800
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > 18.11.13 07:53, Tim Peters написав(ла):
> >
> >  - Some easy sanity checking due to the tiny redundancy (if the byte
> >> immediately following the current frame is not a FRAME opcode, the
> >> pickle is corrupt; and also corrupt if a FRAME opcode is encountered
> >> _inside_ the current frame).
> >>
> >
> > For efficient unpickling a FRAME opcode followed by 8-byte count should be
> > *last* thing in a frame (unless it is a last frame).
> >
> 
> I don't understand that.
> 
> Clearly the framing is the weakest point of the PEP (== elicits the most
> bikeshedding). I am also unsure about the value of framing when pickles are
> written to strings.

It hasn't much value in that case, but the cost is also small (8 bytes
every 64KB, roughly).

Regards

Antoine.

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