From d072d50fd965f868955421a6e8b702adcf60bbd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ValdikSS <iam@valdikss.org.ru>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:44:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Replace bytes with bytearray for massive speed up

Bytes type is very inefficient for append/concatenation and involves
copying the entire data.

This one-line fix speeds up foomatic-db compression from ~20 minutes
to 10 seconds.
---
 pyppd/archiver.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyppd/archiver.py b/pyppd/archiver.py
index 1de90c0..a5e44c1 100644
--- a/pyppd/archiver.py
+++ b/pyppd/archiver.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def compress(directory):
     returns a compressed pickle dump of it.
 
     """
-    ppds = b""
+    ppds = bytearray()
     ppds_index = {}
     abs_directory = os.path.abspath(directory)