[shirshak55]

composer is so slow tbh. It takes ages to download package and well requires me to setup swap even when i have 4 gb ram in server.

[jspaetzel]

I've never had issues with this, what sort of maddening package management are you doing? Are you just talking about installs that's only an occasional hit anyways...?

[abdusco]

Have you used prestissimo? It allows parallel downloads and makes the process much much faster. https://github.com/hirak/prestissimo

[apocalyptic0n3]

I'm not sure how it compares, but an alpha for Composer 2.0 was released last week[1] and the release notes seem to imply that it runs in parallel by default now.

> Added support for parallel downloads of package metadata and zip files, this requires that the curl extension is present and we thus strongly recommend enabling curl

1: https://github.com/composer/composer/releases/tag/2.0.0-alph...

[azeirah]

Yeah, using prestissimo makes package installation sooooo much faster. My Laravel project with over 100 dependencies downloads in under a minute, where it was like... 10 minutes before