Hi Ryan, long time no chat.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Ryan Dahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That said, I don't think I/O will be your only bottleneck when loading
>> 10k JS files (unless none of those files are in the operating system's
>> file cache, then I/O will probably dominate).  I expect that V8 will
>> spend a non-negligible amount of CPU time parsing and compiling all
>> that source code.
>
> Seems like a case where precompiled JS files would help. We did some
> work on this at some point investigating whether V8's snapshot
> facility could be extended to Node's library or even user code. My
> vague memory of the conclusion was: it would be very difficult but
> perhaps doable.

Pre-compiling has some limitations.  IIRC, the generated code must be
< 1 MB and it's not subject to the same optimizations as regular JS
code.

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