New submission from Victor Hooi:
Hi,
I was writing a script to parse BZ2 blogfiles under Python 2.6, and I noticed
that bz2file (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bz2file) seemed to perform much
slower than with bz2 (native):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12575930/is-python-bz2file-slower
Victor Hooi added the comment:
Hi,
I didn't have any buffering size set before, so I believe it defaults to 0 (no
buffering), right? Wouldn't this be the behaviour on both 2.x and 3.x?
I'm using a 1.5 Mb bzip2 file - I just tried setting buffering to 1000 and
100, and it
Victor Hooi added the comment:
Hi,
Aha, whoops, sorry Serhiy, didn't see your second message - I think you and I
posted our last messages at nearly the same time...
Cool, looking forward to your patch =).
Also, is there any chance you could provide a more detailed explanation of
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