fs.write and buffers
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khs4473
Oct 9, 2012, 10:34:54 AM10/9/12
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At what point is it safe to reuse a buffer that is submitted to fs.write? Clearly when the callback is executed, but the buffer appears to be free on nextTick as well...
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Isaac Schlueter
Oct 9, 2012, 2:57:06 PM10/9/12
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It is not safe to re-use a buffer once it's passed to an async method,
and before the callback. In the case of stream.write() it's not safe
to assume that it's *ever* ok to re-use it.
Memory is cheap. If you don't know for sure that it's your
bottleneck, just let it go out of scope and get collected.
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and before the callback. In the case of stream.write() it's not safe
to assume that it's *ever* ok to re-use it.
Memory is cheap. If you don't know for sure that it's your
bottleneck, just let it go out of scope and get collected.
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