[Python-Dev] how to debug httplib slowness (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 4 13:40:32 CEST 2009


Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev gmail.com> writes:

Well, since the source for readchunked 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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