Possible webpack performance enhancements

enhancements.md

Hashing

• Convert all the crypto calls to md5 to a non-crypto library
  • Aggregate all crypto hash usages into util/createHash (webpack/webpack#6006).
  • Avoid calling hash.update with short strings (webpack/webpack#6006).
  • Add Node 8 only non-crypto webassembly hashing algorithm.

Module Concatination

• Improve concatConfigurations algorithm
  • See TODO: here
• Thread module concat plugin
  • Implement NapaJS Zones.
  • Split the root & recursive portions of tryToAdd & thread the latter.
  • Lots & lots of performance testing. Threading this will increase the webpack memory footprint
• Port the heavy lifting portion to rust compiled to wasm
  • Build & performance test a web assembly version of ModuleConcatenationPlugin.
  • Mono repo for all the Rust libs to maintain the webpack/webpack dev experience consistant?

Parsing

• Create a Rust port of Acorn and .... compile to wasm?