mjor

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1. 1.▲
   by mjor 14y ago

   Good for him, I guess, but does those springs not give him an advantage? How would you even go about measuring that?
2. 2.▲
   by mjor 14y ago

   Yes, the chunk of memory is managed by node, but each Buffer instance is linked with a slice of the heap through `v8::Object->SetIndexedPropertiesToExternalArrayData()`, the same way a JS `Uint8Array` would. Here's the relevant link: h
3. 3.▲
   by mjor 14y ago

   Node.js Buffers are actually built on top of V8's Uint8Array. Using 32-bit integers to represent 8-bit values seems quite wasteful.
4. 4.▲
   by mjor 15y ago

   As someone who hasn't really explored client-side MVC yet, my impression is that Backbone.js is the clear leader at this point.
5. 5.▲
   by mjor 15y ago

   I love CoffeeScript, and I would hate to see this become part of the language specification. Just a few things off the top of my head: - Why does defer() look like any other function. - Completely changing the return keyword's meaning if "a