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Trevor Norris
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When large strings are used they cause v8's GC to spend a lot more time cleaning up. In these cases it's much faster to use external string resources. UTF8 strings do not use external string resources because only one and two byte external strings are supported. EXTERN_APEX is the value at which v8's GC overtakes performance. The following table has the type and buffer size that use to encode the strings as rough estimates of the percentage of performance gain from this patch (UTF8 is missing because they cannot be externalized). encoding 128KB 1MB 5MB ----------------------------- ASCII 58% 208% 250% HEX 15% 74% 86% BASE64 11% 74% 71% UCS2 2% 225% 398% BINARY 2234% 1728% 2305% BINARY is so much faster across the board because of using the new v8 WriteOneByte API.
Evented I/O for V8 javascript. 
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1