[Klathmon]

Nothing "earthshattering" in either of these releases. But progress is definitely being made.

I have nothing to really back this up, but it looks like they are in the "death by 1000 cuts" mode of trying to speed things up. Little improvements here or there, little speedups across the board, refactoring bits of code to skip processes that aren't necessary when possible. Those kinds of things. If you are waiting for a big event like "hey we did X and now it's 5x faster across the board" i don't think you are going to see it any time soon (and if it does happen, you can be sure it'll be in the title!).

That being said, this release does bump the node version up, and the npm version. A lot of the startup slowness is from finding and loading node modules (at least from the bit of profiling I did months ago), and NPM3's flatter structure should allow maximum "reuse" of modules meaning less time reparsing identical modules.

I don't know if this will have any actual visible changes, but again, death by 1000 cuts.