Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Interesting


xmlpickle dump : 4.391
xmlpickle load : 3.375
xmlpickle dump psyco: 2.844
xmlpickle load psyco: 3.546
pickle dump : 0.266
pickle load : 0.297
pickle dump psyco: 0.109
pickle load psyco: 0.172
cPickle dump : 0.031
cPickle load : 0.063
marshal dump : 0.015
marshal load : 0.016

note: xmlpickle is my own simplistic implementation using ElementTree ( which Is quite nice btw. )

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

argh!

  • Getting up, programming a bit. 0 sfr
  • Trodding into town to pc-joy. Buying Half-Life 2 Standard. 89 sfr
  • Trodding home. 0 sfr
  • Installing Half-Life 2
Subscription pending

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Priceless!

Update:
To be fair, half an hour later steam noticed me waiting, how touchy, and processed my registration.