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Remove the idle garbage collector. Its purpose was to run the garbage collector when the application is idle but it never worked quite right. Many people have complained over the years that with heaps > 128 MB, a node.js process never sleeps anymore; instead, it spends nearly 100% of its CPU time trying to collect garbage. Back in the old days, idle GC probably was a good idea. But with V8's current incremental collector, idle gc appears to offer no time or space benefits whatsoever and indeed seems actively harmful. Remove it. Fixes #3870.
Evented I/O for V8 javascript. 
To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):
* Python 2.6 or 2.7
* GNU Make 3.81 or newer
* libexecinfo (FreeBSD and OpenBSD only)
Unix/Macintosh:
./configure
make
make install
Windows:
vcbuild.bat
To run the tests:
Unix/Macintosh:
make test
Windows:
vcbuild.bat test
To build the documentation:
make doc
To read the documentation:
man doc/node.1