from some initial tests, it seems 20 be about 30% faster to do s =
a.toString + b.toString() instead of s = a + b

On Feb 28, 11:41 pm, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm struggling to understand why the following works when
> concatenating two buffers into strings:
>
> var a = new Buffer("0123456789");
> var b = new Buffer("0123456789");
> var s = a + b;
> console.log(s);
>
> is the addition operator overloaded in some way to coerce a buffer
> into a string when used with two buffers? if so, does it always do a
> conversion to utf8 or ascii? is this a bad way of doing things
> generally?
>
> thanks for any info.

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