Pnpm: Performant npm

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A dependency manager installed with a dependency manager to make the dependency manager faster.

Sheesh.

This is neat though. Not sure how I feel about the global packages. I feel like it's a strength to have libraries pulled down exclusively per-project.

The dependency loading a dependency isn't exacrly new. JSPM is installed cia NPM.

I agree on the global dependencies part except when it comes to dependency managers. In most cases there're made up of more than just libs (ex dependency cache) that benefit from sharing state globally.

The new npm works great. The progress bar updates was only slowing it down on some platforms and has been fixed. The reason it has become slower is because it is flattening by default which everyone wanted and needed to happen.

I'm sure the reason npm3 is slow(er) is primarily because it's doing important stuff.

However, having played with `ied`, it does flat deps and it's literally an order of magnitude faster (10-20x in my testing). I use npm a lot every day and npm's slowness is becoming a significant UX issue for me. I would like to continue using npm but right now I would switch if either `ied` or `pnpm` had decent feature parity with `npm install`.

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