joyent/node — comment on commit 4d4900fc65104604820c99faeaf439f958634451
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By bnoordhuis:

I'll take @koichik's patch. This commit is phase 1 of a two-pronged attack on getting rid of the O(n) calls to `process._needTickCallback()` because that's the real performance drain. Dropping the `Array.splice()` is just icing on the cake.