On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:31 PM, V.B. <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... Actually, I just now took a closer look at the readChunk() method.
> Even that method makes an internal copy, so it looks like readChunk() isn't
> what we are looking for after all. Hmmm.

It seems to me that readChunk() has done a redundant copy which can be
eliminated (and should be). I don't understand why the wrapper has to
contain an extra copy though. Isn't it just copying the data to the
destination directly?


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> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 12:28:56 AM UTC-4, V.B. wrote:
>>
>> Hi Feng Xiao! Thanks for the response.
>>     That's actually our backup plan. We were hoping to avoid it, though,
>> since the wrappers would each contain an extra copy of the data internally.
>> Our ideal case is for the data to get copied in a single step directly from
>> an InputStream to a ByteString with no intermediate copies along the way.
>> Question: You would know best... Would the safety of ByteStrings be
>> preserved if the readChunk() method were to be made public? If so, I'll
>> open a feature request on the issue tracker.
>>
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