[Python-3000] Google Sprint Ideas

[Ivan Krstić]

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> The new API does not seem to provide for a way to read
> data directly into an existing object without creating
> an intermediate bytes object.

This is among the several things that Itamar Shtull-Trauring mentioned
during his PyCon 2005 talk on 'Fast Networking with Python':

 http://ln-s.net/D+u

While not affecting the new I/O stack design directly, addressing some
of the other ways Itamar lists for improving Python's network efficiency
(deep support for buffers, non-copying split(), Array.Array extensions,
etc) are things we should probably discuss here.

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