Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Not really, but the codec has more control over what happens to >> the stream, ie. it's easier to implement look-ahead in the codec >> than to do the detection and then try to push the bytes back onto >> the stream (which may or may not be possible depending on the >> nature of the stream). > > YAGNI.
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