diff --git a/benchmark/835f71a76f.txt b/benchmark/835f71a76f.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d35cd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/835f71a76f.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+benchmark
+starting  simple-query-parsing
+3703 ops/sec - (100/0.027)
+7299 ops/sec - (1000/0.137)
+8888 ops/sec - (10000/1.125)
+8733 ops/sec - (10000/1.145)
+8810 ops/sec - (10000/1.135)
+8771 ops/sec - (10000/1.14)
+starting  prepared-statement-parsing
+3846 ops/sec - (100/0.026)
+7299 ops/sec - (1000/0.137)
+7225 ops/sec - (10000/1.384)
+7288 ops/sec - (10000/1.372)
+7225 ops/sec - (10000/1.384)
+7457 ops/sec - (10000/1.341)
+done
+
diff --git a/lib/connection.js b/lib/connection.js
index eb42488..b8ebd79 100644
--- a/lib/connection.js
+++ b/lib/connection.js
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Connection.prototype.parseT = function(msg) {
   msg.fieldCount = this.parseInt16();
   var fields = [];
   for(var i = 0; i < msg.fieldCount; i++){
-    fields[i] = this.parseField();
+    fields.push(this.parseField());
   }
   msg.fields = fields;
   return msg;
@@ -498,7 +498,11 @@ Connection.prototype.parseD = function(msg) {
   var fields = [];
   for(var i = 0; i < fieldCount; i++) {
     var length = this.parseInt32();
-    fields[i] = (length === -1 ? null : this.readBytes(length));
+    var value = null;
+    if(length !== -1) {
+      value = this.readBytes(length);
+    }
+    fields.push(value);
   }
   msg.fieldCount = fieldCount;
   msg.fields = fields;
@@ -553,49 +557,35 @@ Connection.prototype.parseA = function(msg) {
 };
 
 Connection.prototype.parseGH = function (msg) {
-  msg.binary = Boolean(this.parseInt8());
+  var isBinary = this.buffer[this.offset] !== 0;
+  this.offset++;
+  msg.binary = isBinary;
   var columnCount = this.parseInt16();
   msg.columnTypes = [];
   for(var i = 0; i<columnCount; i++) {
-    msg.columnTypes[i] = this.parseInt16();
+    msg.columnTypes.push(this.parseInt16());
   }
   return msg;
 };
 
-Connection.prototype.parseInt8 = function () {
-  var value = Number(this.buffer[this.offset]);
-  this.offset++;
-  return value;
-};
-
 Connection.prototype.readChar = function() {
   return Buffer([this.buffer[this.offset++]]).toString(this.encoding);
 };
 
 Connection.prototype.parseInt32 = function() {
-  var value = this.peekInt32();
+  var value = this.buffer.readInt32BE(this.offset, true);
   this.offset += 4;
   return value;
 };
 
-Connection.prototype.peekInt32 = function(offset) {
-  offset = offset || this.offset;
-  var buffer = this.buffer;
-  return ((buffer[offset++] << 24) +
-          (buffer[offset++] << 16) +
-          (buffer[offset++] << 8) +
-          buffer[offset++]);
-};
-
-
 Connection.prototype.parseInt16 = function() {
-  return ((this.buffer[this.offset++] << 8) +
-          (this.buffer[this.offset++] << 0));
+  var value = this.buffer.readInt16BE(this.offset, true);
+  this.offset += 2;
+  return value;
 };
 
 Connection.prototype.readString = function(length) {
-  return this.buffer.toString(this.encoding, this.offset,
-    (this.offset += length));
+  return this.buffer.toString(this.encoding, this.offset, (this.offset += length));
 };
 
 Connection.prototype.readBytes = function(length) {