.NET gets an official High Performance IO library in .NET Standard 2.1

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.NET is getting a new official high performance IO library aimed at dealing with the complexity of managing streams, sockets and other data parsing things.

 

The new library is called System.IO.Pipelines and is available to all C# .NET developers through Nuget.

 

It works on all .NET implementations

 

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System.IO.Pipelines is a new library that is designed to make it easier to do high performance IO in .NET. It’s a library targeting .NET Standard that works on all .NET implementations.

Pipelines was born from the work the .NET Core team did to make Kestrel one of the fastest web servers in the industry. What started as an implementation detail inside of Kestrel progressed into a re-usable API that shipped in 2.1 as a first class BCL API (System.IO.Pipelines) available for all .NET developers

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Correctly parsing data from a stream or socket is dominated by boilerplate code and has many corner cases, leading to complex code that is difficult to maintain.
Achieving high performance and being correct, while also dealing with this complexity is difficult. Pipelines aims to solve this complexity.

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So yeah, cool stuff.

 

It's not every day that the .NET team creates a new library, let alone a new high performance IO library. For years, .NET has suffered with lack of IO related libraries with developers being forced to use the official .NET IO libraries even if they weren't fast or efficient. Now. we finally have the answer.

 

Source:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/07/09/system-io-pipelines-high-performance-io-in-net/