On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> I don't really know. The logic is quite different (and harder to get right) than
> in BufferedReader. I might try to write a list-of-bytes version and do some
> timings, but it's not trivial... I should first compare against the current
> version.
>
> Also, an advantage of using a fixed-size bytearray is that it more closely
> mimicks what will have to be written for an efficient C implementation.

You are correct that this should probably be rewritten in C at some
point, so let's go with this.