While the benchmarks look like there's an overall improvement, it's not instantly clear how much of an improvement they demonstrate. To more easily parse what t

While the benchmarks look like there's an overall improvement, it's not instantly clear how much of an improvement they demonstrate. To more easily parse what the benchmarks are telling us, I calculated the percentage difference and the results appear really impressive. Some of the most notable improvements listed below (results rounded, possibly misleading, but nonetheless awesome). According to these benchmarks, 0.8 is approximately: * 43% faster at reading files. * 119% faster at reading 4096 byte buffers. * 117% faster at writing 16384 byte buffers. * 243% faster at http benchmark TYPE=bytes LENGTH=123456 * 506% faster at http benchmark TYPE=unicode LENGTH=55555 Be sure to note the actual figures though, as they are what really matter. https://github.com/timoxley/node/blob/ddee8bcda50c8377d135d68923ecac0a29f72173/doc/blog/release/node-v0.8.0.md https://github.com/timoxley/node/blob/ddee8bcda50c8377d135d6...