Very cool, I've got a couple of question: the readme references optimized 
transfers, what qualifies as an optimized transfer?  Also, would it be 
possible for byte-streams to give an estimation of the number of memory 
copies that happen in a given conversion (maybe this is as simple as the 
number of steps...)?  Thanks for releasing this!

-- Dan

On Saturday, June 29, 2013 1:57:58 PM UTC-4, Zach Tellman wrote:
>
> I've recently been trying to pull out useful pieces from some of my more 
> monolithic libraries.  The most recent result is 'byte-streams' [1], a 
> library that figures how how to convert between different byte 
> representations (including character streams), and how to efficiently 
> transfer bytes between various byte sources and sinks.  The net result is 
> that you can do something like:
>
>   (byte-streams/convert (File. "/tmp/foo") String {:encoding "utf-8"})
>
> and get a string representation of the file's contents.  Of course, this 
> is already possible using 'slurp', but you could also convert it to a 
> CharSequence, or lazy sequence of ByteBuffers, or pretty much anything else 
> you can imagine.  This is accomplished by traversing a graph of available 
> conversions (don't worry, it's memoized), so simply defining a new 
> conversion from some custom type to (say) a ByteBuffer will transitively 
> allow you to convert it to any other type.
>
> As an aside, this sort of conversion mechanism isn't limited to just byte 
> representations, but I'm not sure if there's another large collection of 
> mostly-isomorphic types out there that would benefit from this.  If anyone 
> has ideas on where else this could be applied, I'd be interested to hear 
> them.
>
> Zach
>
> [1] https://github.com/ztellman/byte-streams
>

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