Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select) that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep.
If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation.
Get Node and give it a try to see what it's all about!
What's New in This Release:
· npm: Upgrade to 1.1.36
· readline: don't use Function#call() (Nathan Rajlich)
· Code cleanup to pass 'use strict' (Jonas Westerlund)
· module: add filename to require() json errors (TJ Holowaychuk)
· readline: fix for unicode prompts (Tim Macfarlane)
· timers: fix handling of large timeouts (Ben Noordhuis)
· repl: fix passing an empty line inserting "undefined" into the buffer (Nathan Rajlich)
· repl: fix crashes when buffering command (Maciej Małecki)
· build: rename strict_aliasing to node_no_strict_aliasing (Ben Noordhuis)
· build: disable -fstrict-aliasing for any gcc · build: detect cc version with -dumpversion (Ben Noordhuis)
· build: handle output of localized gcc or clang (Ben Noordhuis)
· unix: fix memory corruption in freebsd.c (Ben Noordhuis)
· unix: fix 'zero handles, one request' busy loop (Ben Noordhuis)
· unix: fix busy loop on unexpected tcp message (Ben Noordhuis)
· unix: fix EINPROGRESS busy loop (Ben Noordhuis