I concur. Sure, small libraries, but the package modules is not used very effectively when loading the same lib over and over, but from different paths. For example, Underscore.js will almost all dependencies share.
On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:37:30 PM UTC+1, Tony Tam wrote: > > Jeff, > > My company is running into the size issues you have cited. I know this is > an old thread, but I am wondering if you have ever resolved this with > something like npm dedup > > We currently have a 300 MB package in our company with many (> 20) > duplicates of various module. > > I am curious whether the use of consistent 'tags' would lead the community > to solve this by encouraging modules to upgrade to 'tested', 'production > ready' tags in the same time frame > > Tony > > On Thursday, January 5, 2012 5:13:33 AM UTC-8, Jeff Barczewski wrote: >> >> Jann, >> >> From tests I have run, it appears to me that if both copies exist (and >> are not simply symbolic links to the same directory), node will load >> multiple copies of these modules even if they are the same version of the >> module. >> >> So not only will do you have duplicate space on the file system and >> possibly duplicate build time (for compiled modules), you also have >> different copies of modules loaded into memory (even if they are the same >> version) (and any data they cache). >> >> That's another reason I was suggesting it would be nice to have a tool >> which can do just that (to clean/move duplicates to top or to move and >> create symbolic links). I'm still working through some of the thought >> process as to which approach might work better. >> >> IMO, If you care about any of the above, you may want to remove the >> duplicate directory from the lower paths. >> >> Jeff >> > -- -- 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/d/optout.
