[Python-checkins] r67803 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py

antoine.pitrou python-checkins at python.org
Tue Dec 16 00:01:43 CET 2008


Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Tue Dec 16 00:01:43 2008
New Revision: 67803

Log:
Issue #4663: increase the chunk size to improve TextIOWrapper performance on small reads.
Text I/O is still 10x to 100x slower than 2.x!



Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Lib/io.py	Tue Dec 16 00:01:43 2008
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@
     write contains a newline character.
     """
 
-    _CHUNK_SIZE = 128
+    _CHUNK_SIZE = 2048
 
     def __init__(self, buffer, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None,
                  line_buffering=False):


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