For fun, I ran this against node-glob ( https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob ). Looks like it exhibits the slower behavior:

For fun, I ran this against node-glob ( https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob ). Looks like it exhibits the slower behavior: n,elapsed 1,0.07 2,0.07 3,0.07 4,0.07 5,0.16 6,1.43 7,19.90 8,240.76 See this gist for the script https://gist.github.com/mixu/e4803da16e42439480eba2b29fa44484 https://gist.github.com/mixu/e4803da16e42439480eba2b29fa4448...