160x slower than GNU which (~500ms vs. 3ms) about node-which HOT 3 CLOSED

Scratch that; on further inspection, it looks like node just takes that long to load. I inserted a console.log debug statement at the top of the which script, and it shows that 500ms+ pass before the first line of the script is evaluated:

#!/usr/bin/env node
console.log((new Date().getTime()) - Number(process.env.START))
var which = require("../")
...

$ START=$(($(date '+%s%N')/1000000)) which which
570
/usr/local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin/which

I don't suppose there's any chance you'd know offhand why node is so slow?

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I'm not sure offhand, I mean, apart from "it does a bunch of stuff". I'd love to see node's startup time come down.

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@isaacs thanks for the feedback; I did some more digging on my own, and it looks like nvm node runs fast enough (70ms); it's only the official APT package provided by nodesource.com that's slow. Filed an issue on their repo, as referenced in the timeline above.

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