On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:08 AM, NodeNinja <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, October 5, 2012 1:58:17 AM UTC+5:30, Dan Milon wrote: >> Curious, shouldn't V8 be able to inline the readUInt8 function call, or >> there's more than that? >> > That's what even I was thinking about if all the buf.read*() and the > buf.write*() functions are much slower than the indexed version. Possibly > Ben would know better about this.
The read*() and write*() functions do more than simple stores and loads, they also perform (optional) error checks and byte swaps. Besides, they're pure JS functions while buf[i] is an intrinsic. Can't compete with that. :-) -- 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
