The original fs.readFile I wrote worked somewhat like this. I don't know the reasons it was rewritten to use streams instead. I had always assumed it was to save code and be more reliable.
Regarding performance, can you measure the difference, has it caused problems is a real app? And I wouldn't worry about the max size. You probably shouldn't be using a buffering readFile for files that big. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Joran Greef <jo...@ronomon.com> wrote: > Granted, max buffer size on Mac is about (42949672 * 25) bytes and this > doesn't deal with files bigger than that (about a GB), but then I think > neither does fs.readFile (perhaps this needs to be fixed).
