Aren Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I can indeed confirm that this change creates a HUGE speed difference. Using the code found at [1] with python2.5 and apache2 under Ubuntu, changing the buffer size to 4096 improved the time needed to download 10MB from 15.5s to 1.78s, almost 9x faster. Repeat downloads of the same file (meaning the server now has the file cached in memory), yield times of 15.5s and 0.03s, a 500x improvement. When fetching from a server on the local network, rather than from localhost, these times become 15.5s and 0.9s in both cases, a 17x speedup. Real-world situations will likely be a mix of these, however it is safe to say the speed improvement will be substantial. Adding an option to adjust the buffer size would be very welcome, though the default value should still be zero, to avoid the issues already mentioned.
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