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The Problem
Working with binary I/O often requires imperative-style interop. Testing binary I/O, interactively or non-, is made harder by the lack of a literal representations for byte streams.
How can we represent an ordered, possibly infinite, collection of bytes?
Desiderata
Ideally, this representation would be:
- pr/read-able
- representable as a string in a specific encoding
- compatible with Clojure's sequence API
- efficient for streaming I/O of large binary objects
- lazy, i.e., the entire collection need not exist in memory at one time
- compatible with java.io and java.nio interfaces
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Hide/Show CommentsUser icon: hiredman
Jul 08, 2011
Kevin Downey
functions for treating seqs/lists/vectors/whatever like IO Lists from erlang (http://prog21.dadgum.com/70.html) but be useful too
User icon: bsmith.occs@gmail.com
Nov 04, 2011
Ben Smith-Mannschott
"compatible with Clojure's sequence API" At what granularity? If we're talking sequence of individual bytes, then this applies at least one object allocation per byte during traversal. That contradicts "efficient for streaming I/O of large binary objects".