Use Electron ASAR to optimize file system access?

[auchenberg]

Have we considered using Electron's ASAR to optimize file system access? I imagine this could especially help Windows launch performance.

Found this old write-up from N1/Atom: atom/atom#10163, but it seems that they have moved away from it. Is ASAR considered obsoletely? @Tyriar

[bpasero]

@auchenberg we already benefit from the fact that most of our JS code is bundled into a single file. I think where a concept like ASAR could only help us is with node modules access which in our case is not bundled in any way.

/cc @alexandrudima who recently looked into ASAR when checking for file access on startup.

[alexdima]

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[jens1o]

What's the planned action here for November 2017? I'm seeing this everytime I update VSCode Insiders, that they are literally hundreds of thousands js files.