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🤟 Halving Node.js Memory Usage with Pointer Compression

Does 50% memory savings in production sound good? Cloudflare, Igalia, and the Node project have collaborated on node-caged, a Docker image containing Node 25 with V8 pointer compression enabled. Matteo digs into all the details here – this is neat work, though there are tradeoffs to consider.

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