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Buffer constructor not allocating at pool #42821
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Looks like just a documentation bug. Interested in opening a pull request? :-)
Wait, I'm not sure. This commit actually about zero-filling, new Buffer() can actually allocate at internal pool, excluding case when passing number as argument. So strings & arrays - still can be allocated at internal pool (with same restrictions about size).
Not sure how to formulate this clearly & understandable.
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Affected URL(s)
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/docs/api/buffer.html#static-method-bufferallocunsafesize
Description of the problem
This behaviour changed at 7eb1b46 (v8.0.0),
new Buffer(size)will never use preallocated pool.