whole_func_string: function computeIndexChunks(buffer) {
    var BLOCK_SIZE = 65536;
    var view = new jDataView(buffer, 0, buffer.byteLength, true /* little endian */);
  
    var minBlockIndex = Infinity;
    var contigStartOffsets = [];
    view.getInt32();  // magic
    var n_ref = view.getInt32();
    for (var j = 0; j < n_ref; j++) {
      contigStartOffsets.push(view.tell());
      var n_bin = view.getInt32();
      for (var i = 0; i < n_bin; i++) {
        view.getUint32();  // bin ID
        var n_chunk = view.getInt32();
        view.skip(n_chunk * 16);
      }
      var n_intv = view.getInt32();
      if (n_intv) {
        var offset = VirtualOffset.fromBlob(view.getBytes(8), 0),
            coffset = offset.coffset + (offset.uoffset ? BLOCK_SIZE : 0);
        minBlockIndex = coffset ? Math.min(coffset, minBlockIndex) : BLOCK_SIZE;
        view.skip((n_intv - 1) * 8);
      }
    }
    contigStartOffsets.push(view.tell());
  
    // At this point, `minBlockIndex` should be non-Infinity (see #405 & #406)
    return {
      chunks: _.zip(_.initial(contigStartOffsets), _.rest(contigStartOffsets)),
      minBlockIndex
    };
  }
func_code_string: function computeIndexChunks(buffer) {
    var BLOCK_SIZE = 65536;
    var view = new jDataView(buffer, 0, buffer.byteLength, true /* little endian */);
  
    var minBlockIndex = Infinity;
    var contigStartOffsets = [];
    view.getInt32();  // magic
    var n_ref = view.getInt32();
    for (var j = 0; j < n_ref; j++) {
      contigStartOffsets.push(view.tell());
      var n_bin = view.getInt32();
      for (var i = 0; i < n_bin; i++) {
        view.getUint32();  // bin ID
        var n_chunk = view.getInt32();
        view.skip(n_chunk * 16);
      }
      var n_intv = view.getInt32();
      if (n_intv) {
        var offset = VirtualOffset.fromBlob(view.getBytes(8), 0),
            coffset = offset.coffset + (offset.uoffset ? BLOCK_SIZE : 0);
        minBlockIndex = coffset ? Math.min(coffset, minBlockIndex) : BLOCK_SIZE;
        view.skip((n_intv - 1) * 8);
      }
    }
    contigStartOffsets.push(view.tell());
  
    // At this point, `minBlockIndex` should be non-Infinity (see #405 & #406)
    return {
      chunks: _.zip(_.initial(contigStartOffsets), _.rest(contigStartOffsets)),
      minBlockIndex
    };
  }
func_documentation_string: In the event that index chunks aren't available from an external source, it winds up saving time to do a fast pass over the data to compute them. This allows us to parse a single contig at a time using jBinary.