[3.6] bpo-34010: Fix tarfile read performance regression (GH-8020) by miss-islington · Pull Request #8083 · python/cpython

@hajoscher @miss-islington

During buffered read, use a list followed by join instead of extending a bytes object.
This is how it was done before but changed in commit b506dc3.
(cherry picked from commit 12a08c4)

Co-authored-by: hajoscher <hajoscher@gmail.com>

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Jul 4, 2018