On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:56, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote: > could anyone enlighten me on why writing to stdout and stderr now blocks?
The two main reasons (IIRC): 1. The asynchronous nature of stdout confused a lot of people, esp. the fact that Node could exit before all console.log statements have been printed. 2. Printing faster than stdout could handle would queue up the output in a backlog, leading to excessive memory usage. On a side note, stderr has always been blocking. -- 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
