#1792: Improve performance of marshal.dumps() on large objects by increasing
the size of the buffer more quickly.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
index 1b2c8b7..943aa55 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_marshal.py
@@ -255,6 +255,14 @@
subtyp = type('subtyp', (typ,), {})
self.assertRaises(ValueError, marshal.dumps, subtyp())
+ # Issue #1792 introduced a change in how marshal increases the size of its
+ # internal buffer; this test ensures that the new code is exercised.
+ def test_large_marshal(self):
+ size = int(1e6)
+ testString = 'abc' * size
+ marshal.dumps(testString)
+
+
def test_main():
test_support.run_unittest(IntTestCase,
FloatTestCase,