From 2dda6be7991fc6809eedca4dc51935a178c63745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Dahl <ry@tinyclouds.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 20:58:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fast Buffer safe constructor

---
 lib/buffer.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 73899ba..72a82c0 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ function allocPool () {
 
 
 function Buffer (subject, encoding, legacy, slice_legacy) {
+  if (!(this instanceof Buffer)) {
+    return new Buffer(subject, encoding, legacy, slice_legacy);
+  }
+
   var length, type;
 
   // Are we slicing?
-- 
2.7.4