Simon Willison’s Weblog

Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js. Handling file uploads is a real sweet spot for Node.js, especially now it has a high performance Buffer API for dealing with binary chunks of data. Felix Geisendörfer has released a new library called “formidable” which makes receiving file uploads (including HTML5 multiple uploads) easy, and uses some clever algorithmic tricks to dramatically speed up the processing of multipart data.

# 2nd June 2010, 3:57 pm / binary, buffers, html5, javascript, node, nodejs, uploads, recovered, felixgeisendorfer, files

String types in Python 3. bytes are now immutable (just like the bytestrings they are replacing) and a new mutable buffer type has been introduced.

# 9th October 2007, 2:08 am / buffers, bytes, bytestrings, python, python3, strings, unicode