On Mar 4, 4:25 pm, Dan Stromberg <strom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Python folk: Any guesses why a simple file.read(blocksize) would have > such an affinity for returning 16K when redirected from /dev/zero? If > I run the program against a file on disk, it gets larger blocksizes > fine.
Never mind - it was a bug in my code. Now on a slower machine, it runs about 2.5 times faster than it did on the faster machine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list