So in summary, the choices when tested on my system ended up at:
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last-chunk 2.7
last-chunk-2 2.3
last-popen 1.7
last-gzip 1.48
last-decompress 1.12
So by being willing to mix in some more direct code with the GzipFile
object, I was able to beat the overhead of shelling out to the faster
utilities, while remaining in pure Python.
-- David
Though I didn't need this practically, it was a fantastic reading.
Gorgeus, David! Thanks for the ultimative post.
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