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This is the size (in bytes) of pre-allocated internal Buffer instances used for pooling. This value may be modified.

Allocates a new Buffer of size bytes. If fill is undefined, theBuffer will be zero-filled.

Allocates a new Buffer of size bytes. If size is larger than {@link constants.MAX_LENGTH} or smaller than 0, ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE is thrown.

Allocates a new Buffer of size bytes. If size is larger than {@link constants.MAX_LENGTH} or smaller than 0, ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE is thrown. A zero-length Buffer is created if size is 0.

Returns the byte length of a string when encoded using encoding. This is not the same as String.prototype.length, which does not account for the encoding that is used to convert the string into bytes.

Compares buf1 to buf2, typically for the purpose of sorting arrays of Buffer instances. This is equivalent to calling buf1.compare(buf2).

Returns a new Buffer which is the result of concatenating all the Buffer instances in the list together.

Copies the underlying memory of view into a new Buffer.

Creates a new Buffer using the passed {data}

Creates a new Buffer containing the given JavaScript string {str}. If provided, the {encoding} parameter identifies the character encoding. If not provided, {encoding} defaults to 'utf8'.

Allocates a new Buffer using an array of bytes in the range 0 – 255. Array entries outside that range will be truncated to fit into it.

Returns true if obj is a Buffer, false otherwise.

Returns true if encoding is the name of a supported character encoding, or false otherwise.

Creates a new Buffer using the passed {data}