From: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:32:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: news entry matching r74655
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~583
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f3ea6a5e554b803393d2c9ba2824e494d136503;p=python

news entry matching r74655
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b517b978cf..a5ea3beb32 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
+  repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
+  HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
+  when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
+
 - Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
   as documented.