In a message of Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:42:05 +0100, Alan Gauld writes: >You can force the writes (I see Laura has shown how) but >mostly you should just let the OS do it's thing. Otherwise >you risk cluttering up the IO bus and preventing other >programs from writing their files.
Is this something we have to worry about these days? I haven't worried about it for a long time, and write real time multiplayer games which demand unbuffered writes .... Of course, things would be different if I were sending gigabytes of video down the pipe, but for the sort of small writes I am doing, I don't think there is any performance problem at all. Anybody got some benchmarks so we can find out? Laura _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor