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Automatic snapshots

Open arcanis opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Now that snapshots have been merged, Corepack should leverage them to decrease the package managers boot times - similar to how we currently use v8-compile-cache.

The way I imagine it, instead of running yarn.js, we would check whether yarn-${process.version}.blob exists. If it doesn't, create it (by calling the process.execPath binary with the --build-snapshot flag). Otherwise, spawn the blob.

Package managers will need some explicit support for this to work, as they'll need to embed their CLI logic within setDeserializeMainFunction.

arcanis avatar Aug 03 '22 14:08 arcanis

Seems it's still a little too soon for that (trying to build a snapshot from Yarn)

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arcanis avatar Aug 05 '22 11:08 arcanis