And because caching systems are typically a means for speeding up reads, where the article only focuses on writes. Python 2.5 -- including pickle's (faster) bi

And because caching systems are typically a means for speeding up reads, where the article only focuses on writes. Python 2.5 -- including pickle's (faster) bin mode Starting simplejson dumps... done: 31.7636611462 Starting cjson encode... done: 3.80062890053 Starting pickle dumps... done: 10.4873199463 Starting pickle dumps (protocol=-1 -- force HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)... done: 5.98110699654 Starting simplejson loads... done: 138.709590197 Starting cjson decode... done: 1.85300803185 Starting pickle loads... done: 5.24735999107 Starting pickle loads (protocol=-1 -- force HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)... done: 3.66428518295