I've been profiling my code and the most expensive function reported
is the C++ function _chmod.  It appears about 4 times as often as my
most expensive Javascript function.

My program doesn't use the filesystem.  It's very simple.  It prints
one line to the console and only has 2 "require" calls that aren't my
code: underscore, and EventEmitter2 (require("events") exhibits the
same problem).

I've done some grepping through node and its dependencies, and I'm
scratching my head.  _chmod is apparently called by many functions and
I don't see anything in common between them.

Is this an internal node.js thing?  Is it anything to be concerned
about or is there anything I can do to prevent it?  Any insight would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Example:

    499    8.8%  _chmod
     69   13.8%    LazyCompile: *Player.draw /my/project/path/
player.js:192
     38   55.1%      Function: Player.doCleanup /my/project/path/
player.js:119
     36   94.7%        LazyCompile: *Player.doPlay /my/project/path/
player.js:99
     36  100.0%          LazyCompile: *Player.onPlayChosen /my/project/
path/player.js:168
     36  100.0%            LazyCompile: *EventEmitter.emit /my/project/
path/node_modules/eventemitter2/lib/eventemitter2.js:242

Player.draw /my/project/path/player.js:192 is as follows

    Player.prototype.draw = function(n) {
      var card, drawn, _i, _len;
      drawn = this.take(n);
      for (_i = 0, _len = drawn.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
        card = drawn[_i];
        this.hand[card.id] = card;
      }
      return drawn;
    };

this.take(n) returns an array.  this.hand is an object initialized
using curly brackets.  card.id is an integer.

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