Message 189952 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Message189952

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Ben.Darnell, Ken.Giusti, benjamin.peterson, cbay, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, jcea, pitrou, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date	2013-05-25.10:57:18
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Message-id	1369479438.38.0.668022017361.issue8240@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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> As for partial writes, I'm not sure if it's backwards compatible to > turn them on by default, but it might be nice if the option were > exposed. Partial writes may have less benefit in Python than in C > since we'd have to reallocate and copy a string instead of just moving > a pointer. You can slice a memoryview() to avoid a copy. But I'm not sure of the point of partial writes here: can't you just send slices that are small enough (e.g. 4KB each)?

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> As for partial writes, I'm not sure if it's backwards compatible to > turn them on by default, but it might be nice if the option were > exposed. Partial writes may have less benefit in Python than in C > since we'd have to reallocate and copy a string instead of just moving > a pointer. You can slice a memoryview() to avoid a copy. But I'm not sure of the point of partial writes here: can't you just send slices that are small enough (e.g. 4KB each)?

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