What are the different use cases of joblib versus pickle?

Question

Background: I\'m just getting started with scikit-learn, and read at the bottom of the page about joblib, versus pickle.

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Answer 1

Thanks to Gunjan for giving us this script! I modified it for Python3 results

#comapare pickle loaders
from time import time
import pickle
import os
import _pickle as cPickle
from sklearn.externals import joblib

file = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'database.clf')
t1 = time()
lis = []
d = pickle.load(open(file,"rb"))
print("time for loading file size with pickle", os.path.getsize(file),"KB =>", time()-t1)

t1 = time()
cPickle.load(open(file,"rb"))
print("time for loading file size with cpickle", os.path.getsize(file),"KB =>", time()-t1)

t1 = time()
joblib.load(file)
print("time for loading file size joblib", os.path.getsize(file),"KB =>", time()-t1)

time for loading file size with pickle 79708 KB => 0.16768312454223633
time for loading file size with cpickle 79708 KB => 0.0002372264862060547
time for loading file size joblib 79708 KB => 0.0006849765777587891