reduces memory usage.
(Contributed by Kumar Aditya in :gh:`107803`.)
+io
+---
+* :mod:`io` which provides the built-in :func:`open` makes less system calls
+ when opening regular files as well as reading whole files. Reading a small
+ operating system cached file in full is up to 15% faster.
+ :func:`pathlib.Path.read_bytes` has the most optimizations for reading a
+ file's bytes in full. (Contributed by Cody Maloney and Victor Stinner in
+ :gh:`120754` and :gh:`90102`.)
+
Deprecated
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