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Single producer single consumer byte buffer management. Commonly Used Types: System.IO.Pipelines.Pipe System.IO.Pipelines.PipeWriter System.IO.Pipelines.PipeReader

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Published
Oct 13, 2026
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dotnet add package System.IO.Pipelines --version 10.0.13
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README

About

A library designed to make it easier to do high-performance I/O.

Apps that parse streaming data are composed of boilerplate code having many specialized and unusual code flows. The boilerplate and special case code is complex and difficult to maintain.

System.IO.Pipelines was architected to:

  • Have high performance parsing streaming data.
  • Reduce code complexity.

Key Features

  • Single producer/single consumer byte buffer management.
  • Reduction in code complexity and boilerplate code associated with I/O operations.

How to Use

Check the System.IO.Pipelines in .NET article for a full example.

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

  • System.IO.Pipelines.Pipe
  • System.IO.Pipelines.PipeWriter
  • System.IO.Pipelines.PipeReader

Additional Documentation

Feedback & Contributing

System.IO.Pipelines is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.

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