alt Hacker NewsNo, you'll just need to (potentially) keep the last 1-2 bytes of the previous chunk after each iteration. Come on, restartable UTF-8 APIs has been around for more than 30 years.
No, you'll just need to (potentially) keep the last 1-2 bytes of the previous chunk after each iteration. Come on, restartable UTF-8 APIs has been around for more than 30 years.
But those code points were just inputs to another stream transformation that turns a stream of code points into a stream of graphemes. Rapidly your advice turns into "just do everything in one giant transformation" and that loses the benefits of streams, which are meant to be highly composable to create efficient, multi-step transformation pipelines.