Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there anything preventing one from just doing the following?
> fd.write("0" * 409600000)
> It's one huge string for a very short time. It skips all the looping
> and allows Python to pump the file out to the disk as fast as the OS
> can handle it. (and sorta as fast as Python can generate this
> humongous string)
That's large enough that it might exceed your PC's memory and cause
swapping. Try strings of about 64k (65536).
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