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> In particular I'm delighted to see both the definite and indefinite streams of things. Why? I can see the advantages of either one, but I don't see what havi
by tveita 13y ago
> In particular I'm delighted to see both the definite and indefinite streams of things.
Why? I can see the advantages of either one, but I don't see what having both gets you.
In my experience the implementation advantages of having length-prefixed lists disappear if you have to support indefinite lengths anyway.
- kabdib 13y agoI want to use the same data structures for - Passing small messages around - Doing streaming of large content (occasionally) I'm probably doing these over different pipes, but the data shares a lot of the same characteristics and I don't want to use two totally different APIs to get the job done. "Large" can be "I need to transfer something on the order of megabytes using a 4K intermediate buffer."