nodejs / nodejs/performance

Performance of `node:fs`

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Since Sep 17, 2023.

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node:fs is based on FSReqCallback and makes multiple C++ calls for any operation. There are lots of places where we could just open, stat and perform the operation using only 1 C++ call.

An example PR that provided performance boost was: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/48658.

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