Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Well, since the source for _read_chunked includes the comment > > # XXX This accumulates chunks by repeated string concatenation, > # which is not efficient as the number or size of chunks gets big. > > you might gain some speed improvement with minimal effort by gathering > the read data chunks into a list and then returning "".join(chunks) at > the end. +1 for trying this. Given differences between platforms in realloc() performance, it might be the reason why it goes unnoticed under Linux but degenerates under Windows. As a sidenote, it is interesting that even an stdlib module makes this mistake and acknowledges it without trying to fix it.
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