Re: Stdio.Buffer, need a way to revisit old positions in the output

Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) importm?te f?r mailinglistan wrote:
>> However, given the premises that Stdio.Buffer was/is for speed,
>> then any solution that involves creating another object for this seems
>> a bit wasteful.  I.e. those are a lot of memory accesses (for creating
>> the new object) whereas we only want a simple "pointer access" to past
>> data.

>The "pointers" would also be objects, since they need to support the
>offsets changing when data is added to or read from the buffer.

Yes, that would give one a full-blown-protect-you-from-havoc solution
even if you don't know what you're doing with the buffer.
I still think that that would be more overhead than desirable
in high-efficiency buffer operations.
-- 
Stephen.