Re: [streams] New proposal for byte stream uses cases (#289)

I wrote out a pretty long exploration of readable byte streams today. I didn't get to the other parts I planned quite yet. But it does cover, in a lot more detail than done previously, how both file- and socket-backed readable byte streams would work, and how generic readable stream processors can transparently use readable byte streams. It is based on the proposal in the OP, although I adopted @tyoshino's suggestion of naming the method `pull`.

https://gist.github.com/domenic/65921459ef7a31ec2839

I'd really appreciate a read-through. The issues noted in "Reading a byte stream into ArrayBuffers" are interesting, and I am curious how bad they are in practice.

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