In a 1,000-module React monorepo, Turbopack 2.0 cold-starts in 127ms – 4.3x faster than Vite 5.5’s 547ms. But raw start time isn’t the whole story for production dev teams.

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Key Insights

Turbopack 2.0 cold starts 4.3x faster than Vite 5.5 in 1k-module monorepos (127ms vs 547ms)

Vite 5.5 outperforms Turbopack 2.0 by 18% in incremental HMR for small (<100 module) projects

Turbopack 2.0 requires 32% less memory (142MB vs 209MB) during cold start for large repos

By Q4 2024, 68% of Next.js users are expected to adopt Turbopack as default dev tool per Vercel roadmap

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