STINNER Victor added the comment: > On faster computers with slower files (sockets?) it should be larger.
If your patch avoids unbuffered reads, you can test using these commands before your benchmark: sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches And use one large load() instead of running it in a loop. Or call these commands in the loop. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19780> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com