On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:06:57 +0200
Hagen Fürstenau wrote:
> > Ow... I've always assumed that seek() is essentially free, because
> > that's how a typical OS kernel implements it. If seek() is bad on
> > GzipFile, how hard would it be to fix this?
>
> I'd imagine that there's no easy way to make a
> Ow... I've always assumed that seek() is essentially free, because
> that's how a typical OS kernel implements it. If seek() is bad on
> GzipFile, how hard would it be to fix this?
I'd imagine that there's no easy way to make arbitrary seeks on a
GzipFile fast. But wouldn't it be enough to optim
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> While trying to solve #3873 (poor performance of pickle on file
> objects, due to the overhead of calling read() with very small values),
> it occurred to me that the prefetching facilities offered by
> BufferedIOBase are not flexible and ef
