Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Sure, it might not be optimal for compressed files, but I gues that
> the optimal value is function of the compression-level block size and
> many other factors which are just too varied to come up with a
> reasonable heuristic.

Well, I think that compressed files in general would benefit from a
larger buffer size than plain binary I/O, but that's just a hunch.

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