
Streams are slow: 120x faster async primitives
Web Streams design causes 2x–120x slowdowns. I analyze why legacy locking kills throughput and how async iteration fixes it for Node and Workers.

Web Streams design causes 2x–120x slowdowns. I analyze why legacy locking kills throughput and how async iteration fixes it for Node and Workers.

See how local uploads reduce R2 Time to Last Byte from 2s to 500ms by writing data at the edge before async replication.