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 Library
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+- Issue #9410: Various optimizations to the pickle module, leading to
+  speedups up to 4x (depending on the benchmark).  Mostly ported from
+  Unladen Swallow; initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.
+
 - The pprint module now supports printing OrderedDicts in their given
   order (formerly, it would sort the keys).