JavaScript is a ridiculously fast scripting language. But how fast is JavaScript compared to C++? Let’s look at this example that computes prime numbers in Node with…
async_hooks, the new and still experimental API that came out with node 8 got my attention a few weeks back, so I decided to do a bit of exploring as to what it can help me do.
This weekend I scratched a bit of a long term itch and implemented basic support for the Performance Timeline specification for Node.js core. Hopefully it will land soon.
There are still definitely some rough edges and certainly quite a few issues still to work out…