From 7f3ea6a5e554b803393d2c9ba2824e494d136503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:32:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] news entry matching r74655

---
 Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b517b978cfc..a5ea3beb329 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- 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.