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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 26ddd8f..9828662 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -785,17 +785,14 @@ Text I/O inherits :class:`codecs.IncrementalDecoder`. -Advanced topics ---------------- - -Here we will discuss several advanced topics pertaining to the concrete -I/O implementations described above. - Performance -^^^^^^^^^^^ +----------- + +This section discusses the performance of the provided concrete IO +implementations. Binary I/O -"""""""""" +^^^^^^^^^^ By reading and writing only large chunks of data even when the user asks for a single byte, buffered I/O is designed to hide any inefficiency in @@ -808,7 +805,7 @@ platform and the backing device. Therefore, it is most always preferable to use buffered I/O rather than unbuffered I/O. Text I/O -"""""""" +^^^^^^^^ Text I/O over a binary storage (such as a file) is significantly slower than binary I/O over the same storage, because it implies conversions from |