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@@ -540,7 +540,9 @@ On Solaris :func:`os.sendfile` is used.
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On Windows :func:`shutil.copyfile` uses a bigger default buffer size (1 MiB
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instead of 64 KiB) and a :func:`memoryview`-based variant of
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-:func:`shutil.copyfileobj` is used.
+:func:`shutil.copyfileobj` is used, which is still reads and writes in a loop.
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+:func:`shutil.copy2` uses the native ``CopyFile2`` call on Windows, which is the most
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+efficient method, supports copy-on-write, and preserves metadata.
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If the fast-copy operation fails and no data was written in the destination
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file then shutil will silently fallback on using less efficient
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