This library is a collection of convenience functions to make
common tasks easier and less error-prone.
In this context, “error-prone” covers both “hard to do correctly”
and “hard to do with good performance”, but as a general purpose
library, libbase's primary focus is on making it easier to do things
easily and correctly when a compromise has to be made between “simplest
API” on the one hand and “fastest implementation” on the other. Though
obviously the ideal is to have both.
