There's nothing magic happening here, it's just the toString() method
behaving as normal:
marcel@air ~ $ cat foo.js
var foo = {toString: function() { return 'foo' }};
console.log(foo + foo);
marcel@air ~ $ node foo.js
foofoo
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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