4 Fastbufs are stream and file abstractions. They work with normal
5 files, network sockets, memory buffers or just any file descriptor. It
6 should be easy to implement other types by providing functions to
7 refill and read the buffer.
9 Apart from abstraction, they are very fast.
19 Fastbufs on network sockets with timeouts.
26 Reading and writing of unicode characters.
28 Invalid codes are replaced by +UNI_REPLACEMENT+ when reading.
35 Reading and writing of binary values.