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. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
