Binary Stream Parsing in Node.js

Handling binary data in Javascript will soon get a lot better with the new Typed Arrays spec: http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/jsvec/TypedArray-spec.ht...

It was invented for WebGL but is already being used by the guys doing raw audio APIs and will hopefully see wide adoption wherever binary data is found (2D Canvas, sockets, XMLHttpRequest, Web Workers, storage, local file access).

Good stuff! I was thinking about implementing a SPDY server in Node the other week, but I couldn't figure out a good way to do the binary framing part.

This looks highly useful.

Very interesting approach.

Is this already taking care of releasing buffers after they've been tap'ed into?

When advance() in BufferList gets called, the linked list of buffers behind the scene advances so that all the unused buffers can get garbage collected. Binary has a flush() method too that calls advance().

Nice, I'll definitely take this lib on my next binary adventure : )