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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20962> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com