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Serialization of Unicode strings in the pickle module is suboptimal, especially for long strings.
Attached patch optimize the serialization thanks to new properties of Unicode strings (PEP 393):
 * text (protocol 0): avoid any temporary buffer if the string is an ASCII or latin1 string without "\\" or "\n" character; otherwise use a small buffer of 64 KB (instead of two buffer)
 * binary (protocol 1, 2): avoid any temporary buffer if string is an ASCII string or if the string is already available encoded as UTF-8
The current code for protocol 0 uses raw_unicode_escape() which is really suboptimal: it uses a first buffer to write the escape string, and then a new temporary buffer to store the buffer with the right size (instead of just calling _PyBytes_Resize).