The new major version 8 of Node.js coming out in April will be a great performance booster for those who started using async/await and more: - Node upgraded v8

The new major version 8 of Node.js coming out in April will be a great performance booster for those who started using async/await and more: - Node upgraded v8 to 5.7 [1] & async functions as fast as promises [2] - Optimizations in fs[3] [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11752 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/11752 [2] https://v8project.blogspot.ca/2017/02/v8-release-57.html https://v8project.blogspot.ca/2017/02/v8-release-57.html [3] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12105 https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12105