This is a good description of its uses and shortcomings. You essentially use it whenever you need to do fast low-level I/O. If you were going to implement a TCP/IP protocol or if you were writing a database (DBMS) this class would come in handy.
This is a good description of its uses and shortcomings. You essentially use it whenever you need to do fast low-level I/O. If you were going to implement a TCP/IP protocol or if you were writing a database (DBMS) this class would come in handy.