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:
· http_parser: upgrade to ad3b631
· openssl: upgrade 1.0.1c
· darwin: use FSEvents to watch directory changes (Fedor Indutny)
· unix: support missing API on NetBSD (Shigeki Ohtsu)
· unix: fix EMFILE busy loop (Ben Noordhuis)
· windows: un-break writable tty handles (Bert Belder)
· windows: map WSAESHUTDOWN to UV_EPIPE (Bert Belder)
· windows: make spawn with custom environment work again (Bert Belder)
· windows: map ERROR_DIRECTORY to UV_ENOENT (Bert Belder)
· tls, https: validate server certificate by default (Ben Noordhuis)
· tls, https: throw exception on missing key/cert (Ben Noordhuis)
· tls: async session storage (Fedor Indutny)
· installer: don't install header files (Ben Noordhuis)
· buffer: implement Buffer.prototype.toJSON() (Nathan Rajlich)
· buffer: added support for writing NaN and Infinity (koichik)
· http: make http.ServerResponse emit 'end' (Ben Noordhuis)
· build: ./configure --ninja (Ben Noordhuis, Timothy J Fontaine)
· installer: fix --without-npm (Ben Noordhuis)
· cli: make -p equiva...