On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 19:42:53 UTC, J.Frank wrote:
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 18:44:00 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
Ranges are streams. file.byLine(Copy) and byChunk are
effectively streams that are ranges.
I might be wrong, but from what I read so far I don't think
that "ranges are streams":
- Can you read an arbitrary length of bytes from a range?
(Reading by line in my code was just an example.) The only way
I see is to make it a byte range. But then reading n bytes
would result in n calls to popFront(), which is out of the
question for performance reasons. Is this correct?
`myrange.take(array_size).array`
front/popFront are very good candidates for optimization; the
compiler should be able to inline them, removing all of the
overhead (GCD and LDC will likely be better at this than DMD,
though).
- Can you flush() a range?
- Can you use select() on a range?
No, but you can't do either to anything other than file
descriptors anyway (at least on Linux, dunno about Windows), so
you may as well pass in a File.
