-/* Implements a buffer that supports concurrent incremental read and append.
-New readers start reading from the beginning of the buffer, block when reaching
-the end of the buffer, and are unblocked as new data is added.
+/* AsyncStream pulls data in from a io.Reader source (such as a file or network
+socket) and fans out to any number of StreamReader sinks.
+
+Unlike io.TeeReader() or io.MultiWriter(), new StreamReaders can be created at
+any point in the lifetime of the AsyncStream, and each StreamReader will read
+the contents of the buffer up to the "frontier" of the buffer, at which point
+the StreamReader blocks until new data is read from the source.
+
+This is useful for minimizing readthrough latency as sinks can read and act on
+data from the source without waiting for the source to be completely buffered.
+It is also useful as a cache in situations where re-reading the original source
+potentially is costly, since the buffer retains a copy of the source data.