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If every package was 40 MB on my computer, my distribution would be 30 GB. More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't fix that.
400MB of RAM for a REPL!? That's absurdly high.
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Why do you need to prevent 40MB downloads?
If every package was 40 MB on my computer, my distribution would be 30 GB. More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't fix that.
Only if you had installed 750 userland programs. Which are quite a lot. And even then, 30GB for your OS + your third party programs is negligible in even a 265GB flask disk (merely 12% of it).
>More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't fix that.
Not sure where you got those metrics. Code doesn't "expand" on memory, and binary size it's not a reliable metric of how much memory it will use (a trivial 5 line program that just mallocs can use TB of memory).
For the majority of very large programs, most of the size on disk is assets, not compiled code.
I was just looking for something like this. How do I load external node modules into the repl? I tried "File->Add module path" but it didn't seem to work for me. Basically, having done an npm install of lodash somewhere, I want to do var _ = require('lodash'); in the repl.
What kind of javascript engine is on this REPL? I tried some ES6 stuff with random success. For example arrow functions work while deconstructing doesn't.
I was just looking for something like this. How do I load external node modules into the repl? I tried "File->Add module path" but it didn't seem to work for me. Basically, having done an npm install of lodash somewhere, I want to do var _ = require('lodash'); in the repl.
Very relevant: https://tonicdev.com/
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If every package was 40 MB on my computer, my distribution would be 30 GB. More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't fix that.
> If every package was 40 MB on my computer, my distribution would be 30 GB. Only if you had installed 750 userland programs. Which are quite a lot. And even then, 30GB for your OS + your third party programs is negligible in even a 265GB flask disk (merely 12% of it). > More importantly, these 40 MB of code and resources expand to about 400 MB in memory when the application is running, but a global library wouldn't…