Fixes issue #6838: use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly concatenating strings.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
Library
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+- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
+ repeatedly concatenating strings in http.client's
+ HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
+ when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
+
- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules for a
module.