Hello,

Several times I encountered one problem and each time I had to solve it again. As a result, I created the nbuff package, but maybe there is a ready solution and I wasted time?

The context is this - the program accepts data from the network and process it (examples are parsing HTTP headers, deserializing a network data stream, searching patterns in a network stream).

The problem is that the data comes in arbitrary chunks and you have to collect data into a continuous buffer(which means a lot of copying in memory) to use standard algorithms such as find, split, etc.

I made a nbuff package for myself that creates a buffer and keep unconcatenated data chunks, but support standard algorithms as it support several range properties.

How do you solve this problem? Is there something in std that can be used here?

Thanks!

On Thursday, 11 July 2019 at 16:09:54 UTC, ikod wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Several times I encountered one problem and each time I had to solve it again. As a result, I created the nbuff package, but maybe there is a ready solution and I wasted time?
>
> (...)
>
> Thanks!

The iopipe library may cover your needs. I have not used it myself so I'm not sure.

http://code.dlang.org/packages/iopipe