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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/shutil.rst2
-rw-r--r--Lib/shutil.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst3
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index 79d6bd4..587be3b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ On Linux, Solaris and other POSIX platforms where :func:`os.sendfile` supports
copies between 2 regular file descriptors :func:`os.sendfile` is used.
On Windows :func:`shutil.copyfile` uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB
-instead of 16 KiB) and a :func:`memoryview`-based variant of
+instead of 64 KiB) and a :func:`memoryview`-based variant of
:func:`shutil.copyfileobj` is used.
If the fast-copy operation fails and no data was written in the destination
diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index 9b50c2a..7dd470d 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
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97ed658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Default buffer size used by ``shutil.copyfileobj()`` is changed from 16 KiB
+to 64 KiB on non-Windows platform to reduce system call overhead. Contributed
+by INADA Naoki.