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Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by Ecio78 »

uhm, according to their benchmark io.js write performance dropped from 21mb/s to 17mb/s in linux but rose from 12mb/s to 33mb/s in windows. So it seems that windows node implementation is now twice faster (for I/O) than linux one..are they only focusing on windows platform?

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by bnoordhuis »

Ecio78 wrote: post #2

uhm, according to their benchmark io.js write performance dropped from 21mb/s to 17mb/s in linux but rose from 12mb/s to 33mb/s in windows. So it seems that windows node implementation is now twice faster (for I/O) than linux one..are they only focusing on windows platform?

That's a regression we'll probably have fixed in 0.6.1.

Note that I/O read performance is up 35%, from 19.7 mb/s in 0.4 to 26.6 mb/s in 0.6.

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by lemonad »

I found it a bit odd that writes for linux went down from 22MB/s to 17MB/s when Windows writes went way up from 13MB/s to 34MB/s. This at the same time as read performance went up to 27MB/s for both systems.

Edit: Seems like it's a regression that will likely be fixed for 0.6.1.

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by chbrown »

bnoordhuis wrote: post #3
Ecio78 wrote: post #2

uhm, according to their benchmark io.js write performance dropped from 21mb/s to 17mb/s in linux but rose from 12mb/s to 33mb/s in windows. So it seems that windows node implementation is now twice faster (for I/O) than linux one..are they only focusing on windows platform?

That's a regression we'll probably have fixed in 0.6.1. Note that I/O read performance is up 35%, from 19.7 mb/s in 0.4 to 26.6 mb/s in 0.6.

Is there a description of your benchmark machines / benchmark process anywhere?

Keep up the great work, btw! I'm pretty excited to move up to Node 0.6 (probably-statistically-insignificant regression on IO-write regardless)!

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by mjs »

bnoordhuis wrote: post #3
Ecio78 wrote: post #2

uhm, according to their benchmark io.js write performance dropped from 21mb/s to 17mb/s in linux but rose from 12mb/s to 33mb/s in windows. So it seems that windows node implementation is now twice faster (for I/O) than linux one..are they only focusing on windows platform?

That's a regression we'll probably have fixed in 0.6.1. Note that I/O read performance is up 35%, from 19.7 mb/s in 0.4 to 26.6 mb/s in 0.6.

Is there a ticket to follow to track this regression?

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

Swizec wrote: post #5

Direct link to a list of changes you have to make to your codebases: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.4... Question: Since this doesn't look that complex, is anyone working on an automagical translator from 0.4 to 0.6 that people could use?

I think lots of the pain is going to be in the vast collection of third party (npm) modules that need to be updated. Will take a bit before all module authors are up to date.

Re: Node.js v0.6.0 is released

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Post by newman314 »

bnoordhuis wrote: post #3
Ecio78 wrote: post #2

uhm, according to their benchmark io.js write performance dropped from 21mb/s to 17mb/s in linux but rose from 12mb/s to 33mb/s in windows. So it seems that windows node implementation is now twice faster (for I/O) than linux one..are they only focusing on windows platform?

That's a regression we'll probably have fixed in 0.6.1. Note that I/O read performance is up 35%, from 19.7 mb/s in 0.4 to 26.6 mb/s in 0.6.

Any numbers for node on ARM? I was told that recently v8 releases have had significant performance regressions for ARM devices by a JS dev at a meetup.
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