Value and view types
This library contains two types to represent bencoded data,
the value type bvalue
and the view type bview
.
bvalue
owns the data it contains.
Parsing to bvalue
involves copying data to the internal storage of a bvalue
.
bvalue
can modify the stored values.
bview
does not own any data.
Parsing to bview
is done by creating an index of type descriptor_table
into a stable buffer with bencoded data.
Based on this index bview
provides read-only access to the bencoded data.
The interfaces of bvalue
and bview
are very similar.
This enable the use of both types in a generic code.
Performance
Parsing to bview
is about 5 times faster then parsing to bvalue
.