scala.collection.immutable.ByteString is a rope-like immutable data structure containing bytes. The goal of this structure is
to reduce copying of arrays when concatenating and slicing sequences of bytes, and also providing a thread safe
way of working with bytes.
scala.collection.immutable.ByteString is based off the latest Akka ASL2 codebase
(see https://github.com/akka/akka/tree/6680c47dcc2305906a44d7794081682211d7ee0b). The original authors of Akka's
ByteString can be seen here.
ByteString uses sbt-jmh to perform benchmarks, see the benchmark
folder for more information. Details for running benchmarks are typically noted in the benchmark class file itself.