try non sync version of byte-array iostreams
Merge pull request #10 from mpenet/fast-streams

non sync version of byte-array iostreams (from Apache Harmony, also used in Cassandra)
Housekeeping for 67633d5
Update benchmarks (2.0.0-alpha6 w/fast io-streams)
Bump version (2.0.0-alpha8)
Merge branch 'dev'