Deprecation of Existing std.io Readers and Writers in ziglang/zig
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Summary
The article discusses the deprecation of existing std.io readers and writers in favor of new non-generic std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer implementations with the buffer above the vtable.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledAlthough Reader and Writer are no longer generic, they are still transparent to optimization.
All of the interface functions have a concrete hot path operating on the buffer.
I have a lot more changes to upstream but it was taking too long to
Deprecates all existing std.io readers and writers in favor of the newly provided std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer which are non-generic and have the buffer above the vtable.
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