how a document arrived, before anything has been decided about what it says: as text, or as
bytes that are not text until something inflates or decodes them.
This is not the format. It is the one thing that can be settled synchronously on a first
chunk, and it decides only whether the reader decodes as it goes or keeps the bytes intact.
how a document arrived, before anything has been decided about what it says: as text, or as bytes that are not text until something inflates or decodes them.
This is not the format. It is the one thing that can be settled synchronously on a first chunk, and it decides only whether the reader decodes as it goes or keeps the bytes intact.