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anonymoushn on July 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrow...

Modules work if they can operate without allocating or are generic over allocators. I don't really get why people think it's normal for e.g. a websocket decoder to insist on calling read, write, epoll, and mmap, if the user just wants to encode and decode messages.

mgaunard on July 13, 2023 [–]

There is no maximum size for a websocket message, so unless you want to force a size ahead of time, you might need to allocate to resize your buffer.

Or you could give the message in fragments to the user, but that immediately becomes a very inconvenient API.

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