Using require ('babel / register') against forwarding code before running

Question

Are there any performance advantages over the latter over the former? When I tested this myself, the time it took for one of my projects to load an already translated one was much shorter than when it used babel / register. Apart from the launch time, I'm not quite sure what I would write to compare the two. Does anyone know if Babel invoice only adds from babel / register code that translates the code when it works, or slowly, no matter what you do?

Answer 1

You are correct in that it affects the launch time (it will be drastic, depending on how big your project is). As for the actual runtime, it should make exactly 0 difference if there is no error in Node itself (which, unfortunately, is unlikely to be fixed because it is outdated).