multiprocessing module - could it use google protocol buffers?

[zLuke]

Does it make sense to be able to substitute the pickling action in the
multiprocessing module with google protocol buffers instead? If so,
has anyone thought how to do it? I wanted some operation more compact/
faster than pickling for ipc of data.

Also, has anyone built any wrappers for the multiprocessing module
that gives a simple pp flavor kind of construct?

Curious,
zLuke