http://simonwillison.net/2010-06-02T15:57:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-06-02T15:57:00+00:002010-06-02T15:57:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jun/2/parsing/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s-with-node-js:4c03862e-351c-4faa-bb67-4365cbdd56cb">Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/binary">binary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/buffers">buffers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nodejs">nodejs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/uploads">uploads</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/felixgeisendorfer">felixgeisendorfer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/files">files</a></p>

2007-10-09T02:08:13+00:002007-10-09T02:08:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/9/strings/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://pyside.blogspot.com/2007/10/string-types-in-python-3.html">String types in Python 3</a></strong></p> bytes are now immutable (just like the bytestrings they are replacing) and a new mutable buffer type has been introduced. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/buffers">buffers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bytes">bytes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bytestrings">bytestrings</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python3">python3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/strings">strings</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/unicode">unicode</a></p>