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+var usage = 'node benchmark/compare.js <node-binary1> <node-binary2>';
+
+var show = 'both';
+var nodes = [];
+for (var i = 2; i < process.argv.length; i++) {
+  var arg = process.argv[i];
+  switch (arg) {
+    case '--red': case '-r':
+      show = show === 'green' ? 'both' : 'red';
+      break;
+    case '--green': case '-g':
+      show = show === 'red' ? 'both' : 'green';
+      break;
+    default:
+      nodes.push(arg);
+      break;
+  }
+}
+
+var runBench = process.env.NODE_BENCH || 'bench';
+
+if (nodes.length !== 2)
+	return console.error('usage:\n  %s', usage);
+
+var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
+var results = {};
+var n = 2;
+
+run();
+
+function run() {
+  if (n === 0)
+		return compare();
+
+  n--;
+
+	var node = nodes[n];
+  console.error('running %s', node);
+	var env = {};
+  for (var i in process.env)
+    env[i] = process.env[i];
+  env.NODE = node;
+	var child = spawn('make', [ runBench ], { env: env });
+
+	var out = '';
+	child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+	child.stdout.on('data', function(c) {
+		out += c;
+	});
+
+  child.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
+
+	child.on('close', function(code) {
+		if (code) {
+			console.error('%s exited with code=%d', node, code);
+			process.exit(code);
+		} else {
+			out.trim().split(/\r?\n/).forEach(function(line) {
+        line = line.trim();
+        if (!line)
+          return;
+
+				var s = line.split(':');
+				var num = +s.pop();
+				if (!num && num !== 0)
+          return
+
+				line = s.join(':');
+				var res = results[line] = results[line] || {};
+				res[node] = num;
+			});
+
+			run();
+		}
+	});
+}
+
+function compare() {
+	// each result is an object with {"foo.js arg=bar":12345,...}
+	// compare each thing, and show which node did the best.
+  // node[0] is shown in green, node[1] shown in red.
+  var green = '\033[1;32m';
+  var red = '\033[1;31m';
+  var reset = '\033[m';
+  var maxLen = -Infinity;
+  var util = require('util');
+	Object.keys(results).map(function(bench) {
+    var res = results[bench];
+    var n0 = res[nodes[0]];
+    var n1 = res[nodes[1]];
+
+    var pct = ((n0 - n1) / ((n0 + n1) / 2) * 100).toFixed(2);
+
+    var g = n0 > n1 ? green : '';
+    var r = n0 > n1 ? '' : red;
+    var c = r || g;
+
+    if (show === 'green' && !g || show === 'red' && !r)
+      return;
+
+    var r0 = util.format('%s%s: %d%s', g, nodes[0], n0, reset);
+    var r1 = util.format('%s%s: %d%s', r, nodes[1], n1, reset);
+    var pct = c + pct + '%' + reset;
+    var l = util.format('%s: %s %s', bench, r0, r1);
+    maxLen = Math.max(l.length + pct.length, maxLen);
+    return [l, pct];
+  }).filter(function(l) {
+    return l;
+  }).forEach(function(line) {
+    var l = line[0];
+    var pct = line[1];
+    var dotLen = maxLen - l.length - pct.length + 2;
+    var dots = ' ' + new Array(Math.max(0, dotLen)).join('.') + ' ';
+    console.log(l + dots + pct);
+  });
+}