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by masklinn 4973 days ago
He's talking about iolists (concatenating strings for IO, which is the most common use case and the one needed for e.g. templates), not straight strings.
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I wonder how many times that's need to be said until it sinks in? This is the third time and I didn't even go through half of comments yet...
Many times :)

writev() is hard to grasp.

Thats what not many realize, that iolists with binaries need never be pasted together. They are basically passed to the kernel with a writev