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Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [... by amluto on Sunday March 03, 2019 @11:00PM (#19298668)
Perhaps npm could save themselves oodles of money by supplying a nice turnkey npm package cache and requiring major users to use it.

And perhaps the CI server folks would want this anyway because it would be vastly faster.

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Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [... by IsaacSchlueter on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:21PM (#19314810)
You might be surprised (or maybe not) to learn that many service providers are far more willing to spend money on predictably large bandwidth bills than on less predictable changes in their infrastructure which require human time and attention to implement.
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