Simplify code by relying on the fact that `ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW` is always true nowadays: remove conditional handling of `std::string_view` as a separate type, and assume that e.g. `std::string::append(std::string_view)` works. `string_view` continues to be spelled `absl::string_view` rather than `std::string_view` for compatibility with Google style. Remove an outdated comment at `StringRef`. It cannot be simply replaced with `absl::string_view` without breaking materializing a temporary `std::string` from e.g. `StringInitializer`. PiperOrigin-RevId: 896895786
Riegeli/records is a file format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers. It supports dense compression, fast decoding, seeking, detection and optional skipping of data corruption, filtering of proto message fields for even faster decoding, and parallel encoding.
See documentation.
Riegeli file format will only change in a backward compatible way (i.e. future readers will understand current files, but current readers might not understand files using future features).
Riegeli C++ API might change in incompatible ways.