[cl-irc-ticket] Re: [cl-irc] #2: external format guessing for incoming messages

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#2: external format guessing for incoming messages
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  Reporter:  afuchs       |       Owner:  ehuelsmann
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned  
  Priority:  major        |   Milestone:            
 Component:  chat         |     Version:            
Resolution:               |    Keywords:            
 Has_patch:  1            |  
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Comment (by ehuelsmann):

 Ok, I have investigated that we can't do our own buffering, since there's
 no platform independent way to tell how much data we can read from the
 stream without blocking for more input.

 We can OTOH use read-char to create a somewhat read-line like function:
 read-sequence-until; it reads a stream until a limiting sequence is
 matched. In our case, we could use '(13 10) as the limiting sequence.

 I noticed in the SBCL sources that read-char is a buffered call just as
 any other stream read action, so, at least for SBCL, the performance
 impact should be limited.

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