fix trace_events Node.js compatibility problems

[petebacondarwin]

Thanks to @anonrig for basically writing this code and letting me take the credit in the PR!

[codspeed-hq]

CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging #5456 will not alter performance

_{Comparing pbd/trace-events (05f1983) with main (7fa38f9)}

Summary

✅ 34 untouched
⏩ 9 skipped¹

Footnotes

1. 9 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩