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> In real terms that means a saving of around 1MB. That doesn’t sound like much, but at 4 million weekly downloads, that would save 4TB of bandwidth per week.
> In real terms that means a saving of around 1MB. That doesn’t sound like much, but at 4 million weekly downloads, that would save 4TB of bandwidth per week.
Yeah, who cares about 4TB/week? What is this, the '90s?!
That's 6 Mbytes per second.
For a single package. And npm hosts a few more than that.
They shrinked a package size by almost 40%. No way this isn't significant improvement. Hell, at their scale 4% improvement is big.
That's a lot of data that you're not paying for...
A dedicated 10 Gigabit internet link at a data center will cost you around $1,000 per month from any of a number of providers.
A 10 gigabit link can transmit 3240 Terabytes of data in one month.