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eknkc on Feb 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Node v7.5.0 Released

I might be mistaken but I believe there were some major performance issues with the older async/await implementation.

ronjouch on Feb 3, 2017 | [–]

Indeed, a memory leak: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9339 / https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5582

egeozcan on Feb 3, 2017 | [–]

Yes, on the other hand, if you are like me and use them for one-off scripts, they are great.

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