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Did some benchmarks with Bun on the Hubble codebase. 

The tl;dr is that it made a huge improvement to package install speed, but no material changes to building or test running. 

Benchmark 1:  Installing packages with a lockfile in offline mode

Bun is 8x faster

Benchmark 2: Building the project without cache

A good chunk of this step is typescript and rust compilation, so expected that bun made little to no difference 

Bun is the same as yarn

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Benchmark 3: Running tests with cache and without cache 

Bun is very marginally faster than yarn. This one was surprising, I wonder if there is something in our pipeline that is the cause.

Thanks for sharing. A nice bench for the build part would also be using bun's bundler vs esbuild (what you're using currently through tsup)

Thanks for sharing. A nice bench for the build part would also be using bun's bundler vs esbuild (what you're using currently through tsup)

https://bun.sh/docs/bundler

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Heads up, when I tried Bun with @farcaster/hub-nodejs this morning, the grpc dependency threw a string exception error, but on node it’s fine.

Glad to see Bun being tested, would save tons of CPU on AWS if benchmarks are accurate