Hi, use case: large files with a binary structure and embedded “text” elements. Depending on the file size, we either read them fully into mem, or mmap them. Hence in both cases, the data are fully available in memory. Our files potentially have millions of records Because we know the binary form…

Conversion of Vector{UInt8} to String without copy

stevengj November 10, 2020, 9:28pm 6

Update: I created a draft package for this:

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