pipelines.md

System.IO.Pipelines

• Leverages the primitives (Span<T> and Memory<T>) and low-allocation APIs.
• Provides an efficient programming model while freeing the developers from having to manage buffers.
• A pipeline is like a Stream that pushes data to you rather than having you pull. One chunk of code feeds data into a pipeline, and another chunk of code awaits data to pull from the pipeline.
• When writing to a pipeline, the caller allocates memory from the pipeline directly.
• Pipelines formalize transferring ownership of buffers so that the readers can flow buffers up the stack without copying.
• Supports moving data without copying.