Re:Show HN: 58% cost by replacing file reads with a dependen...
by nicola_alessi on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:20PM
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vexp works regardless of how you organize files. The graph is at the symbol level (functions, classes, types) not the file level, so whether you have one function per file or 50, it resolves the same dependency chain and serves the same capsule.
The savings actually increase with larger files because that's where the baseline wastes the most, Claude reads a 500-line file to use 20 lines of it.
The savings actually increase with larger files because that's where the baseline wastes the most, Claude reads a 500-line file to use 20 lines of it.