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Jackson Tian afd821a91d buffer: faster case for create buffer from empty string
When create Buffer from empty string will touch
C++ binding also.

This patch can improve edge case ~70% faster.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4414
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
2016-03-27 09:14:48 -07:00
James M Snell 85ab4a5f12 buffer: add .from(), .alloc() and .allocUnsafe()
Several changes:

* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
2016-03-16 08:34:02 -07:00
Jackson Tian 5396baf7c1 buffer: faster case for create Buffer from new Buffer(0)
When create Buffer from a Buffer will copy data
from old to new even though length is zero.

This patch can improve edge case 4x faster.
following is benchmark results.

new: buffers/buffer_zero.js n=1024: 2463.53891
old: buffers/buffer_zero.js n=1024: 618.70801

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4326
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
2015-12-23 17:15:19 -08:00