This change is great for node. On our http_simple benchmark with 1mb sized responses throughput jumped from 0.005 gbit/s to 0.547 gbit/s.
Btw, we create this response body by adding characters one by one. See https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/95d530f2b4faa57662d3b052e7637246b6a7025f/benchmark/http_simple.js#L31-34 http://codereview.chromium.org/8304021/ -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev
