Just published v1.1.0 of my framing protocol module for node.js. https://github.com/lleo/node-frap I rewrote the input parsing routine completely for v1.1.0. It wasn't broken before, but the current version is much cleaner/better looking code. I remove gobs of what I've come to call vomit code. All the verbosity for debugging and assert-bombing to die close to a bug (old C-coder debugging style of mine). Lots of lines-of-code reduction. Makes it easier to read casually. I implemented a lot of BDD tests, based on the mocha framework. I wrote better benchmark scrips. Better but not very good. Overall, I'd say it is more stable and healthier code than v1.0.0.

IEEE 754 may not be such a kluge I thought it was

I just found out something elegant about double floating point numbers... or maybe this is just a Javascript thing.

function log2(v) { return Math.log(v)/Math.LN2 }
log2(Number.MAX_VALUE) //=> 1024

The Log base 2 of the Maximum double floating point number is 1024. There is something elegant about that. My respect for IEEE 754 just went up.