Re: [whatwg/streams] Stream Reader: event to detect first byte of each chunk added to internal buffer (#1126)

> @ricea that's was the motivation for raising this issue. On client side it should be possible to detect if transmission is ongoing or idle. 

I think you misunderstood my point, which is that it is not possible at all. No API change can make it possible. The information is simply not available to the client.

> An event announcing the start of chunk transmission will reduce the problem back again to the simple formula transferred_bits/transmission_duration. Interestingly, in Node.js this event already exists since a while, it is called readable [2] which offers this missing piece

This Node.js code doesn't measure anything meaningful, and certainly not the speed of the network. It's basically just a benchmark of how fast Node can emit the "data" event.

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