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buffer: faster case for create Buffer from new Buffer(0)
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When create Buffer from a Buffer will copy data
from old to new even though length is zero.

This patch can improve edge case 4x faster.
following is benchmark results.

new: buffers/buffer_zero.js n=1024: 2463.53891
old: buffers/buffer_zero.js n=1024: 618.70801

PR-URL: #4326
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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JacksonTian authored and Myles Borins committed Jan 19, 2016
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions benchmark/buffers/buffer_zero.js
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
'use strict';

const common = require('../common.js');

const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
n: [1024]
});

const zero = new Buffer(0);

function main(conf) {
var n = +conf.n;
bench.start();
for (let i = 0; i < n * 1024; i++) {
new Buffer(zero);
}
bench.end(n);
}
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions lib/buffer.js
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Expand Up @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ function fromString(string, encoding) {
function fromObject(obj) {
if (obj instanceof Buffer) {
var b = allocate(obj.length);

if (b.length === 0)
return b;

obj.copy(b, 0, 0, obj.length);
return b;
}
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