Issue 36748: Optimize textio write buffering (original) (raw)

textio uses list of textio for internal buffering. There are two inefficiency:

• When textio is line buffered and all written strings are line (it's very common), list object is allocated and freed.
• We convert texts into bytes, and call b''.join(list_of_bytes). But when texts are ASCII and codecs are ASCII-compat, we can skip temporary bytes objects.

Attached patch is benchmark for buffered and line buffered write.

Faster (6):

• write_ascii_32k: 101 ns +- 1 ns -> 73.1 ns +- 0.4 ns: 1.39x faster (-28%)
• write_ascii_8k: 102 ns +- 1 ns -> 73.4 ns +- 0.4 ns: 1.38x faster (-28%)
• write_ascii_linebuffered: 815 ns +- 12 ns -> 731 ns +- 3 ns: 1.12x faster (-10%)
• write_unicode_linebuffered: 840 ns +- 11 ns -> 789 ns +- 15 ns: 1.06x faster (-6%)
• write_unicode_8k: 124 ns +- 1 ns -> 122 ns +- 1 ns: 1.01x faster (-1%)
• write_unicode_32k: 124 ns +- 1 ns -> 122 ns +- 1 ns: 1.01x faster (-1%)