Raw I/O library proposal, second (more pragmatic) draft

[John Meacham]

we should have a routine which pumps bytes from an inputstream to an
outputstream. on many systems this can be greatly optimized by using
something like sendfile(2). even without sendfile, this operation can be
optimized in many cases like for arraystreams it can be a single memcpy.
I feel this is very important, but am unsure where to add it.
        John

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