doc: revise --zero-fill-buffers text in buffer.md

Trott · codebytere · commit cd30dbb0d64a · 2020-03-03T09:03:47.000-08:00
There was an unclear sentence fragment that needed fixing, so I edited the entire paragraph for clarity. I also removed irrelevant information about behavior before Node.js 8.0.0. That version of Node.js is no longer supported and these docs will never apply to 8.0.0. (At the time of this writing, 10.x is the oldest supported line, and so changes to the docs will never be backported farther than the 10.x docs.) PR-URL: #32019 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -123,15 +123,12 @@ added: v5.10.0
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 Node.js can be started using the `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option to
-cause all newly allocated `Buffer` instances to be zero-filled upon creation by
-default. Before Node.js 8.0.0, this included buffers allocated by `new
-Buffer(size)`. Since Node.js 8.0.0, buffers allocated with `new` are always
-zero-filled, whether this option is used or not.
-[`Buffer.allocUnsafe()`][], [`Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow()`][], and `new
-SlowBuffer(size)`. Use of this flag can have a significant negative impact on
-performance. Use of the `--zero-fill-buffers` option is recommended only when
-necessary to enforce that newly allocated `Buffer` instances cannot contain old
-data that is potentially sensitive.
+cause all newly-allocated `Buffer` instances to be zero-filled upon creation by
+default. Without the option, buffers created with [`Buffer.allocUnsafe()`][],
+[`Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow()`][], and `new SlowBuffer(size)` are not zero-filled.
+Use of this flag can have a significant negative impact on performance. Use the
+`--zero-fill-buffers` option only when necessary to enforce that newly allocated
+`Buffer` instances cannot contain old data that is potentially sensitive.
 
 ```console
 $ node --zero-fill-buffers
