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+Length-prefixed framing for byte streams. Similar to Tokio's codec module or Ogg.
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+Structures:
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+- Framer - Takes datagrams and returns a byte stream.
+- Deframer - Takes a byte stream and returns datagrams.
+- Multiplexer - Takes multiple byte streams and returns one byte stream.
+- Demultiplexer - Takes one byte stream and returns multiple byte streams.
+- MultiFramer - A convenience wrapper around Framers and a Multiplexer, which takes datagrams of multiple streams and returns one byte stream.
+- DeMultiFramer - A convenience wrapper around Deframers and a Demultiplexer, which takes one byte stream and returns datagrams of multiple streams.