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Re:Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install spee... by draw_down on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:29PM (#10976240)
Also the second run probably used stuff that was put in the npm cache during the first run. Not sure how good a test this is.

A good read: "Programmers need to learn statistics or I will kill them all" http://zedshaw.com/archive/programmers-need-to-learn-statist...

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Re:Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install spee... by gavinjoyce on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:32PM (#10976267)
It yields the same results in reverse order and also when the cache is primed for both and cleared for both
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