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Improve performance by offering a buffers() method that returns Buffer[] #157

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I recently discovered that invoking buffer() on a ConcatSource incurs a massive performance overhead by invoking Buffer.concat, particularly if there are layers of CachedSource -> ConcatSource -> CachedSource -> ConcatSource.

Invoking source() and the calling Buffer.from is considerably faster because it avoids the intermediary allocations.

We have writev nowadays, so there's no reason we couldn't keep the data as Buffer[] all the way until the final write to the file system and avoid repeated copying of memory during the concatenation layers.

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