From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-05-17T07:48:53+09:00
Subject: Socket#recv into a buffer


Is there any reason why Socket#recv can't take an optional buffer 
argument the way IO#read does?

Otherwise, Socket#recv is always allocating strings, hence burdening GC.

I saw about a 20% improvement by using #read instead of #recv in some 
socket code, but of course the unbuffered vs. buffered difference comes 
into play there too.

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