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wireproto: bypass filechunkiter for small files when streaming

Merely creating and using a generator has a measurable impact,
particularly since the common case for stream_out is generators that
yield just once. Avoiding generators improves stream_out performance
by about 7%.

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It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
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Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.