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Does enabling `nodejs_compat` in Cloudflare Workers slow down the worker's performance?
Is there any performance impact
?
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K
kian
•
4/8/24, 1:32 PM
There shouldn
't be
.
K
kian
There shouldn't be.
J
James
OP
•
4/8/24, 1:40 PM
As Node
.js adds some extra overhead
, why is there not a performance issue
?
K
kian
•
4/8/24, 1:41 PM
Workers never run Node
.js
K
kian
•
4/8/24, 1:41 PM
It
's just some modules added into the runtime
K
kian
•
4/8/24, 1:42 PM
https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/tree/main/src/node
C
Chaika
•
4/8/24, 2:03 PM
node
_compat option in wrangler polyfills
/adds a bunch of stuff to your bundle
, which would slow down loading and such
, but for nodejs
_compat flag the modules are already there in the runtime
, just not enabled
.
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