Dan Stromberg
3/6/2010 8:22:00 AM
On Mar 4, 4:25 pm, Dan Stromberg <strom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Python folk: Any guesses why a simple file.read(blocksize) would have
> such an affinity for returning 16K when redirected from /dev/zero? If
> I run the program against a file on disk, it gets larger blocksizes
> fine.
Never mind - it was a bug in my code.
Now on a slower machine, it runs about 2.5 times faster than it did on
the faster machine.