Buffers can in a way be resized, use slice to make smaller, and concat to make bigger. I doubt slice frees anything, but concat does allocate if it needs to.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Seiji Sam Lee <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Apologize if this is a old-issue but, why Buffer has its size static? > > > > Why don't use realloc to resize its capacity? > > Because bad things would happen if the code below was legal: > > var buf = new Buffer(1024); > fs.read(fd, buf, buf.length, cb); > buf.resize(32); > > -- > 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 > -- 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
