Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

> where does the 1ko barrier come from? Was it only chosen out of
> performance considerations [...]

Most certainly.  I’ll look at the history of the file later to try to find the 
developer who decided that.

> tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile was already used in python 3 (fixed in
> r57595, with not many explanations though).

That’s a TemporaryFile, without a name.  For more explanations, follow the 
parents of the changeset and you’ll find aee21e0c9a70 (referencing #1033) and 
cbd50ece3b61, where you can see an XXX note that is probably the “wish” 
referred to in the cryptic commit message.

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