This patch adds a fast path for parsing of simple path-only URLs, as commonly found in HTTP requests received by a server. Benchmark results [ms], before / after patch: /foo/bar 0.008956 0.000418 (fast path used) http://example.com/ 0.011426 0.011437 (normal slow path, no change) In a simple 'ab' benchmark of a single-threaded web server, this patch increases the request rate from around 6400 to 7400 req/s. Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Evented I/O for V8 javascript.
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* GCC 4.2 or newer
* G++ 4.2 or newer
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
With libicu i18n support:
svn checkout --force --revision 214189 \
http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/deps/third_party/icu46 \
deps/v8/third_party/icu46
./configure --with-icu-path=deps/v8/third_party/icu46/icu.gyp
make
make install
If your python binary is in a non-standard location or has a non-standard name, run the following instead:
export PYTHON=/path/to/python
$PYTHON ./configure
make
make install
Prerequisites (Windows only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* Visual Studio 2010 or 2012
Windows:
vcbuild nosign
You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from http://nodejs.org/download/. The Windows and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to. The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory with:
tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
Or system-wide with:
cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
/path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1
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