Adjusting chunk size for streaming datasets
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Hi ! Data streaming uses `fsspec` to read the data files progressively. IIRC the block size for buffering is 5MiB by default. So every time you finish iterating over a block, it downloads the next one. You can still try to increase the `fsspec` block size for buffering if it can help. To do so you just need to increase `fsspec.spec.AbstractBufferedFile.DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE `

Currently this is unfortunately done in a single thread, so it blocks the processing to download and uncompress the next block. At one point it would be nice to be able to do that in parallel ! Hi! Thanks for the help, I will try it :)
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
I want to use mc4 which I cannot save locally, so I stream it. However, I want to process the entire dataset and filter some documents from it. With the current chunk size of around 1000 documents (right?) I hit a performance bottleneck because of the frequent decompressing. 

**Describe the solution you'd like**
I would appreciate a parameter in the load_dataset function, that allows me to set the chunksize myself (to a value like 100'000 in my case). Like that, I hope to improve the processing time.


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