[issue6838] httplib's _read_chunked extremely slow for lots of chunks

Chris Withers added the comment: Fix merged to 2.6, 3.1 and 3.2 branches. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue6838] httplib's _read_chunked extremely slow for lots of chunks

Chris Withers added the comment: Fix for trunk committed in r74655. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubs

[issue6838] httplib's _read_chunked extremely slow for lots of chunks

New submission from Chris Withers : As the comment in this method suggests, accumulating the value by repeated string concatenation is slow. Appending to a list speeds this up dramatically. To quantify this, downloading a 110Mb file from Apache take: ~3s using Internet Explorer 2.2s using wge