[Twisted-Python] Re: Sending large amounts of data over Pb

[Nicola Larosa]

> Since my list is all primitives I thought maybe pickling it before sending 
> would speed it up as banana would have to do less work, but I get a 
> 
> twisted.spread.banana.BananaError: string is too long to send (706378)

There's an hard-wired limit of 640KB that, according to a(n in)famous
figure, should be enough for anyone. ;-)


> Is that an arbitrary length limit or technically significant?
> 
> Is there other methods of speeding this up?

Slowness of PB with big data is a known problem, the situation should have
gotten better with newpb. Look at this thread:

http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2005-September/011297.html


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