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On Friday, March 16, 2012 5:42:19 PM UTC-4, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 19:57, Patrick Quinn wrote:
> > 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.
>
> On what platform is this? _chmod looks like a function from the Windows 
> CRT.
>

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