BufIO is an alternative IO interface in Julia inspired by Rust, designed around exposing buffers to users for them to explicitly copying to and from.
Compared to Base.IO, the interfaces in this package are generally:
- Lower level
- Faster
- Easier to reason about
- Better specified, with more well-defined semantics
- Free from slow fallback methods that trash your performance
This package also provides a basic set of types which allows easy interoperation between Base.IO types the new buffered interface.
BufferedStreams.jl speeds up the existing Base.IO interface for unbuffered types by providing and internal buffer.
However, the package does not provide an interface for reading/writing from the buffer directly,
BufferedStreams also provide concrete types, but no abstract interface.
Finally, it does not attempt to improve on the interface of Base.IO.
TranscodingStreams.jl provides buffering, but does so through a specific Buffer type instead of through an interface.
It is also centered around transcoding and not IO in general. Its interface is both more complex and less documented than this package. Finally, it exposes the Base.IO interface instead of an alternative interface.
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