Re: [whatwg/streams] Chunking with Streams (#171)

Update from 2017: hints about good chunk size propagate down a pipe via desiredSize, but "narrow" sections of the pipe or non-byte sections will lose information. There is some [language in the definition of pipeTo()](https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/#rs-pipe-to) which permits implementations to be intelligent about chunk size.

There is an open question about whether we will add more explicit support for chunking when `type: 'bytes'` WritableStreams are specced. I'm labelling this issue "writable streams" for that reason. A lot depends on how we choose to implement optimised byte writers, which is currently a wide open question: #680.

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