Why is cPickle so slow?

The default format used by the pickle module is a bit verbose, because it’s designed to produce readable pickles. You can specify a more compact format with the protocol argument.

 
myPickle = cPickle.dumps(data, protocol=cPickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)

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