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The picklers do no longer allocate temporary memory when dumping large
``bytes`` and ``str`` objects into a file object. Instead the data is
directly streamed into the underlying file object.

Previously the C implementation would buffer all content and issue a
single call to ``file.write`` at the end of the dump. With protocol 4
this behavior has changed to issue one call to ``file.write`` per frame.

The Python pickler with protocol 4 now dumps each frame content as a
memoryview to an IOBytes instance that is never reused and the
memoryview is no longer released after the call to write. This makes it
possible for the file object to delay access to the memoryview of
previous frames without forcing any additional memory copy as was
already possible with the C pickler.