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avaer on June 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yarn vs. npm5 determinism

Runtime speed also. Requiring only one copy means only one instance is parsed and optimized by the js engine. Which saves time and heats cache.

gedy on June 4, 2017 [–]

Yes, but only if you aren't already transpiring minifying code such as for front end frameworks

avaer on June 4, 2017 | [–]

Which is most of the time, on the backend.

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