Source: node-v8-compile-cache Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Paolo Greppi , Jérémy Lal Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-semver , node-tap , node-temp , node-rimraf Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Homepage: https://github.com/zertosh/v8-compile-cache Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-v8-compile-cache.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-v8-compile-cache Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-v8-compile-cache Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs:any(>= 14) Provides: ${nodejs:Provides} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: Leverage v8 compile cache to speedup loading of Node.js modules V8 is the JavaScript Engine used by Node.js and Chromium; it uses just-in-time compilation (JIT) to execute Javascript code, and code caching to lessen the overhead to initially parse and compile a script. . The ability to tap into V8 to produce/consume this cache was introduced in Node v5.7.0. This module attaches a require hook to use V8's code cache to speed up instantiation time. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.