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Trevor Norris
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Buffer(<String>) used to pass the string to js where it would then be passed back to cpp for processing. Now only the buffer object instantiation is done in js and the string is processed in cpp. Also added a Buffer api that also accepts the encoding.
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