我想保存一个dict或数组。

我尝试与np.save和一起使用pickle，发现前者总是花费更少的时间。

我的实际数据要大得多，但在这里我仅展示一小段用于演示目的：

import numpy as np
#import numpy.array as array
import time
import pickle

b = {0: [np.array([0, 0, 0, 0])], 1: [np.array([1, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([-1,  0,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0,  0, -1])], 2: [np.array([2, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([ 1, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0,  0, -1])], 3: [np.array([1, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([-1,  0,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0,  0, -1])], 4: [np.array([2, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([ 1, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0,  0, -1])], 5: [np.array([0, 0, 0, 0])], 6: [np.array([1, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([-1,  0,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0,  0, -1])], 2: [np.array([2, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([ 1, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0,  0, -1])], 7: [np.array([1, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([0, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([-1,  0,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 0,  0,  0, -1])], 8: [np.array([2, 0, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 1, 0, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 1, 0]), np.array([1, 0, 0, 1]), np.array([ 1, -1,  0,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0, -1,  0]), np.array([ 1,  0,  0, -1])]}


start_time = time.time()
with open('testpickle', 'wb') as myfile:
    pickle.dump(b, myfile)
print("--- Time to save with pickle: %s milliseconds ---" % (1000*time.time() - 1000*start_time))

start_time = time.time()
np.save('numpy', b)
print("--- Time to save with numpy: %s milliseconds ---" % (1000*time.time() - 1000*start_time))

start_time = time.time()
with open('testpickle', 'rb') as myfile:
    g1 = pickle.load(myfile)
print("--- Time to load with pickle: %s milliseconds ---" % (1000*time.time() - 1000*start_time))

start_time = time.time()
g2 = np.load('numpy.npy')
print("--- Time to load with numpy: %s milliseconds ---" % (1000*time.time() - 1000*start_time))

输出：

--- Time to save with pickle: 4.0 milliseconds ---
--- Time to save with numpy: 1.0 milliseconds ---
--- Time to load with pickle: 2.0 milliseconds ---
--- Time to load with numpy: 1.0 milliseconds ---

我的实际大小（字典中约有100,000个键）时差更加明显。

为什么在保存和加载时，泡菜比np.save花费的时间更长？

我pickle什么时候应该使用？