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Plate 93
Vite 7.3.6 vs Parcel 2.16.4 on a 40-page React 19 TS fixture (147 modules): cold serve-ready median 692 ms vs 1,718 ms (~2.5x); cold prod build wall median 2,586 ms vs 1,806 ms; JS 228,426 B vs 227,172 B with Parcel --no-source-maps.
Plate 21
c8 12.0.0 vs nyc 18.0.0 on 80 CommonJS modules / 480 mocha tests: coverage-run median 4222 ms vs 7415 ms (~1.76x; no-coverage baseline 1734 ms). Same code, different totals: branches 81.3% (c8) vs 47.9% (nyc).
Plate 68
npm 12.2.0 vs pnpm 12.9.1 vs Bun 1.4.2 on one 24-dependency React + Vite app: from scratch 14.2 s / 3.1 s / 1.5 s; lockfile + warm cache 2.9 s / 0.28 s / 0.27 s; lockfile + empty cache 3.9 s / 2.3 s / 0.45 s. Disk, lockfile size and the pnpm phantom-dependency catch.