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Is Zig's new writer unsafe?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
If it was a mission critical piece of code, maybe we'd benchmark it or make it platform dependent. There are legitimate scenarios where the nature of a Reader is unknown (or, at least, difficult to figure out). A type of a reader could be conditional, say based on an HTTP response header.
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