Elembuf is a library that allows writing efficient parsers and
readers. It looks as if it were just a regular T[], making it
work well with libraries and easy to use with slicing. To avoid
copying, the buffer can only be at maximum one page long.
Internally it is a circular buffer with memory mirroring. The
garbage collector should not be used for the buffer as it would
remove the memory mapping functionality. In the future, work will
be done to add support for a dynamic buffer that copies when
resized and -betterC compatibility. It currently supports
Windows, GlibC 2.27 and Posix systems.
You can create your own sources for the buffer, or you can
directly write to the buffer. The project also comes with one
example source: "NetSource", which can be used as a base for
implementing the read interface of your own source, should you
want to make one. The example source lacks major features and
should only be used as a reference for your own source.
Code simplicity and ease of use are major goals for the project.
More testing and community additions are needed. A good first
contribution would be to add additional sources or fix current
ones. Please Check it out on github and consider helping out:
https://github.com/Cyroxin/Elembuf
- Announcing Elembuf Cyroxin via Digitalmars-d-announce
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