Issue #4663: increase the chunk size to improve TextIOWrapper performance on small reads.

Text I/O is still 10x to 100x slower than 2.x!

Issue #4663: increase the chunk size to improve TextIOWrapper performance on small reads.
Text I/O is still 10x to 100x slower than 2.x!
56b3a40e · Antoine Pitrou · 2674aacb · 56b3a40e
Commit 56b3a40e authored Dec 15, 2008 by Antoine Pitrou
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--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ class TextIOWrapper(TextIOBase):
    write contains a newline character.
    """
-    _CHUNK_SIZE = 128
+    _CHUNK_SIZE = 2048
    def __init__(self, buffer, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None,
                 line_buffering=False):