Better buffering API for message bodies
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Since Mar 29, 2026.
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Description
Although the direct `read/write` with `uint8_t* data, size_t len` is often a solid API for low level systems, in this particular project it lends itself to excessive copying. This is not a disaster for most applications, but given the amount of copying already present in both wxWidgets and Libevent, buffers should be treated as abstract objects, capable of reading, writing, and mapping, with their concrete implementations being populated with runtime specific data. This would also be an improvement given that both libraries are extremely opinionated in how they want message data processed, and some common abstraction could hide that.
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