Speed tests for *json and cPickle in Python(j2labs.tumblr.com)

    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

  $ python -mtimeit -s "from json import dumps; 
  d = {
      'foo': 'bar',
      'food': 'barf',
      'good': 'bars',
      'dood': 'wheres your car?',
      'wheres your car': 'dude?',
  }
  " "dumps(d)"
  100000 loops, best of 3: 6.89 usec per loop

  $ python -mtimeit -s "from cPickle import dumps; 
  d = {
      'foo': 'bar',
      'food': 'barf',
      'good': 'bars',
      'dood': 'wheres your car?',
      'wheres your car': 'dude?',
  }
  " "dumps(d)"
  100000 loops, best of 3: 7.78 usec per loop

  $ python -mtimeit -s "from cPickle import dumps; 
  d = {
      'foo': 'bar',
      'food': 'barf',
      'good': 'bars',
      'dood': 'wheres your car?',
      'wheres your car': 'dude?',
  }
  " "dumps(d, -1)"
  100000 loops, best of 3: 3.59 usec per loop