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bufferutil is a utility package designed to enhance the performance of WebSocket operations by providing efficient masking and unmasking functions for data payloads. It is particularly useful in applications that require fast WebSocket communication. This package is an optional dependency for the ws library.
- lurq health score
- 63/100
- Confidence
- proven
- Weekly downloads
- 7,971,499
- Latest version
- 4.1.0
- Last release
- Dec 18, 2025
- License
- MIT
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