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readFileSync ... not good not good .... nodejs is sexier async ;)
by blackysky 13y ago
readFileSync ... not good not good .... nodejs is sexier async ;)
- wcummings 13y agonode.js is sexier when it doesn't serve stacktraces in production. Plus async files reads still happen in an internal threadpool (one thread per core, hardcoded, IIRC) so it's pretty easy to saturate that anyway, you should be caching static assets.
- blackysky 13y agoyou are right but I'll still use async over sync anytime... :)
- Jare 13y agoYou will often prefer to use sync for one-time loads or for debugging.
- Jare 13y agoThe express framework activates the view cache by default when configured for production, so both problems are actually the same.
- wcummings 13y agoI suspect it's not configured for prod, since I'm seeing a stacktrace