urllib slow on FreeBSD 4.7? sockets too

[Mike Brown]

"Bengt Richter" <bokr at oz.net> wrote in message
news:arm32g$icu$0 at 216.39.172.122...
> I don't have a real handy way to duplicate your experiment (not having BSD
on the other box),
> but if it's easy for you, I'd be interested in how fast/slow this mod of
your test runs:
> (change file an url to taste)
>
> =====
> #!/usr/bin/python
> # turlread.py
> [...]

bytes: 4241.5K; time: 9.027s (469 KB/s)

No improvement.