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

pitrou · pitrou · commit 56b3a40e0579 · 2008-12-15T23:01:43.000Z
Text I/O is still 10x to 100x slower than 2.x!
diff --git 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):
