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authorInada Naoki <methane@users.noreply.github.com>2019-03-02 13:31:01 +0900
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-03-02 13:31:01 +0900
commit4f1903061877776973c1bbfadd3d3f146920856e (patch)
treee9ef1a128bbee617b497bedfa52c583d36b48562 /Lib/shutil.py
parentbcfa450f210074e16feb761ae5b3e966a2532fcf (diff)
downloadcpython-git-4f1903061877776973c1bbfadd3d3f146920856e.tar.gz
bpo-36103: change default buffer size of shutil.copyfileobj() (GH-12115)
It is changed from 16KiB to 64KiB. The previous default value is used since 1990. coreutils chose 128 KiB as minimum buffer size for block device I/O. But shutil.copyfileobj() can be used for non block devices. So I choose more conservative value. As my quick benchmark, performance difference between 64KiB and 128 KiB is up to ~5%. On the other hand, performance difference between 32 KiB and 64 KiB can be more than 10% when file is fully buffered. This is why 64 KiB is rational value.
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 9b50c2a983..7dd470dfab 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ if os.name == 'posix':
elif _WINDOWS:
import nt
-COPY_BUFSIZE = 1024 * 1024 if _WINDOWS else 16 * 1024
+COPY_BUFSIZE = 1024 * 1024 if _WINDOWS else 64 * 1024
_HAS_SENDFILE = posix and hasattr(os, "sendfile")
_HAS_FCOPYFILE = posix and hasattr(posix, "_fcopyfile") # macOS