Because it returns the module.exports object so it can't.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Benjamin Pasero <[email protected] > wrote: > Is there a technical reason why node.js does not execute the require in > parallel? > > On Monday, July 29, 2013 4:37:43 PM UTC+2, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Did you think about a possibility of 4) redesign your application so >> it's >> > not loading 10k modules? That's an INSANE amount of dependencies. Even >> > making them parallel in some way is still going to require thousands of >> > syscalls. In general I don't think it's going to be a priority for node >> to >> > optimise for startup time, but I could be wrong - I'm not a core team >> > member. >> >> Well, we try to keep node.js snappy. But loading 10k files at >> start-up is pretty out of the ordinary, I'm not sure it's worth the >> time trying to optimize for edge cases like that. >> > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
