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Ben Noordhuis  
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 More options Oct 4 2012, 10:30 pm
From: Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:30:35 +0200
Local: Thurs, Oct 4 2012 10:30 pm
Subject: Re: [nodejs] Array reads faster than Buffer reads ???
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:08 AM, NodeNinja <aeon6f...@gmail.com> 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. :-)

 
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