Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > As for your "blocksize = filesize" argument I changed my opinion: > despite being less CPU consuming we might incur into problems if > that number is too big. 'count' parameter on Linux, for example, is > expected to be an unsigned int. > Other plarforms will also use different data types so we better stick > with a fixed blocksize value (currently 8192).
If you really think a blocksize is necessary, you could choose a much larger one for sendfile() (such as 16 MB). Then the overhead of system calls would be much smaller. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13564> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
