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A comparison of how long it takes to run a simple `echo` script in npm, yarn, and make.
$ time npm run echo
> rosszurowski.com@1.0.0 e
> echo 'hi'
hi
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Executed in 157.78 millis fish external
usr time 133.42 millis 33.00 micros 133.38 millis
sys time 29.20 millis 826.00 micros 28.38 millis
$ time yarn echo
yarn run v1.22.19
$ echo 'hi'
hi
✨ Done in 0.03s.
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Executed in 126.10 millis fish external
usr time 93.03 millis 0.05 millis 92.98 millis
sys time 31.17 millis 1.18 millis 29.99 millis
$ time make echo
hi
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Executed in 9.62 millis fish external
usr time 3.09 millis 30.00 micros 3.06 millis
sys time 4.01 millis 610.00 micros 3.40 millis
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