Improve appendix markdown

benchmark/buffer_creation.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 
-for (var i = 0; i < 9000000; i++) {
+for (var i = 0; i < 9e7; i++) {
   b = new Buffer(10);
   b[1] = 2
 }

benchmark/string_creation.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 
-for (var i = 0; i < 9000000; i++) {
+for (var i = 0; i < 9e7; i++) {
   s = '01234567890';
   s[1] = "a";
 }

doc/api.markdown

@@ -3289,41 +3289,40 @@ For the moment, that is all the documentation on addons. Please see
 ## Appendix - Third Party Modules
 
 There are many third party modules for Node. At the time of writing, August
-2010, the master repository of modules is the wiki page at
+2010, the master repository of modules is
-
+http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules[the wiki page].
-  http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules
 
 This appendix is intended as a SMALL guide to new-comers to help them
 quickly find what are considered to be quality modules. It is not intended
 to be a complete list.  There may be better more complete modules found
 elsewhere.
 
-  Package System: NPM http://github.com/isaacs/npm
+- Module Installer: [NPM](http://github.com/isaacs/npm)
 
-  HTML Parsing: HTML5 http://github.com/aredridel/html5
+- HTTP Middleware: [Connect](http://github.com/senchalabs/connect)
 
-  HTTP Middleware: Connect http://github.com/senchalabs/connect
+- Web Framework: [Express](http://github.com/visionmedia/express)
 
-  Web Framework: Express http://github.com/visionmedia/express
+- Web Sockets: [Socket.IO](http://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO-node)
 
-  Web Sockets: Socket.IO http://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO-node
+- HTML Parsing: [HTML5](http://github.com/aredridel/html5)
 
-  mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour: mDNS http://github.com/agnat/node_mdns
+- [mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour](http://github.com/agnat/node_mdns)
 
-  RabbitMQ, AMQP: http://github.com/ry/node-amqp
+- [RabbitMQ, AMQP](http://github.com/ry/node-amqp)
 
-  MySQL: http://github.com/felixge/node-mysql
+- [mysql](http://github.com/felixge/node-mysql)
 
-  Serialization: http://github.com/pgriess/node-msgpack
+- Serialization: [msgpack](http://github.com/pgriess/node-msgpack)
 
-  Scraping: http://github.com/silentrob/Apricot 
+- Scraping: [Apricot](http://github.com/silentrob/Apricot)
 
-  Debugger: ndb http://github.com/smtlaissezfaire/ndb is a CLI debugger
+- Debugger: [ndb](http://github.com/smtlaissezfaire/ndb) is a CLI debugger
-  Node-Inspector http://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector is a web based
+  [inspector](http://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector) is a web based
   tool.
 
-  pcap binding: http://github.com/mranney/node_pcap
+- [pcap binding](http://github.com/mranney/node_pcap)
 
-  ncurses: http://github.com/mscdex/node-ncurses
+- [ncurses](http://github.com/mscdex/node-ncurses)
 
 Patches to this list are welcome.

src/node_buffer.cc

@@ -701,6 +701,22 @@ Handle<Value> Buffer::ByteLength(const Arguments &args) {
 }
 
 
+Handle<Value> Buffer::MakeFastBuffer(const Arguments &args) {
+  HandleScope scope;
+
+  Buffer *buffer = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<Buffer>(args[0]->ToObject());
+  Local<Object> fast_buffer = args[1]->ToObject();;
+  uint32_t offset = args[2]->Uint32Value();
+  uint32_t length = args[3]->Uint32Value();
+
+  fast_buffer->SetIndexedPropertiesToPixelData((uint8_t*)buffer->data() + offset,
+                                               length);
+
+  return Undefined();
+}
+
+
+
 void Buffer::Initialize(Handle<Object> target) {
   HandleScope scope;
 
@@ -731,6 +747,9 @@ void Buffer::Initialize(Handle<Object> target) {
   NODE_SET_METHOD(constructor_template->GetFunction(),
                   "byteLength",
                   Buffer::ByteLength);
+  NODE_SET_METHOD(constructor_template->GetFunction(),
+                  "makeFastBuffer",
+                  Buffer::MakeFastBuffer);
 
   target->Set(String::NewSymbol("Buffer"), constructor_template->GetFunction());
 }

src/node_buffer.h

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ class Buffer : public ObjectWrap {
   static v8::Handle<v8::Value> AsciiWrite(const v8::Arguments &args);
   static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Utf8Write(const v8::Arguments &args);
   static v8::Handle<v8::Value> ByteLength(const v8::Arguments &args);
+  static v8::Handle<v8::Value> MakeFastBuffer(const v8::Arguments &args);
   static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Unpack(const v8::Arguments &args);
   static v8::Handle<v8::Value> Copy(const v8::Arguments &args);