It cannot be avoid sometimes. In my case, I need to build a new block of binary data, then send to client. Even use C++ addon to build data, it's still necessary to return a Buffer for network sending.
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:20:43 PM UTC+8, chilts wrote: > > On 13 November 2012 23:09, darcy <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > So, you should be careful with large buffers. > > Not just careful, but try to avoid them anyway. By streaming your info > to/from disk, to/from requests or to/from external services you'll > avoid having to use large buffers completely. It's probably a good > practice to get into, rather than allocating large amounts of memory > per request. > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > Andrew Chilton > e: [email protected] <javascript:> > w: http://appsattic.com/ > t: https://twitter.com/andychilton > -- 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
