unplugin-auto-import 20.3.0 + unplugin-vue-components 29.2.0 on Vue 3.5.43 / Vite 7.3.6: 40 components, 40 utils, 20 composables. Import lines 382 → 22 (−360). Warm production build medians (minify off, 7 rounds): manual 940 ms vs auto 1,207 ms (+267 ms); both 105 modules; JS 209.03 → 210.88 kB.
vite-plugin-checker 0.10.3 with enableBuild on Vite 7.3.6 / TS 5.9.3 / React 19: clean wall medians plain 1,949 ms vs checker 2,018 ms (+69 ms) vs tsc --noEmit 985 ms. Injected TS error: plain vite exit 0 (ships dist) x3; checker exit 2 x3; tsc exit 2 x3. Fixture 122 modules.
bun test 1.4.2 vs Vitest 5.0.3 on 300 TypeScript tests in 60 files: warm wall medians 136 ms vs 1,673 ms (~12x); Vitest --no-isolate 765 ms (~5.6x). A 5-file vitest-API check (vi.fn, vi.mock, fake timers, spyOn, it.each, snapshot) passed 7/7 under Bun.
esbuild-register 3.6.0 vs jiti 2.7.0 on a 61-file TypeScript graph: cold wall medians 343 ms vs 540 ms (~1.57x); after jiti disk cache warm, 185 ms vs esbuild-register 350 ms. Same printed result 970.
size-limit 11.2.0 (@size-limit/file) vs bundlesize 1.0.0-beta.2 on 3 prebuilt dist JS files: brotli median 761 ms vs gzip 604 ms; size-limit gzip mode 621 ms. App reported 57.69 kB brotli / 62.20 kB gzip / 60.74 kB bundlesize gzip.
volta 2.0.2 vs fnm 1.39.0 switching Node 20.19.2 ↔ 22.14.0: session A-then-B median 13.9 ms vs 17.0 ms; steady node -v 7.4 ms vs 6.4 ms (direct 4.7 ms).
husky 9.1.7 + lint-staged 16.2.3 vs lefthook 1.13.6 on a 40-file prettier pre-commit: local-bin medians 478 ms vs 615 ms (~1.29x); npx path 651 ms vs 765 ms; install 283 ms vs 256 ms.
Madge 8.0.0 vs dependency-cruiser 16.10.2 on 116 JS files: median wall 679 ms vs 1122 ms (~1.65x). Both found the same 2 circular dependency groups. Depcruise also reported 120 modules / 193 dependencies.
Rolldown 1.2.12 vs Rollup 4.64.0 on 501 ESM files (197380 B source): median wall 245.617 ms vs 964.3 ms (~3.9x). Output 130522 vs 126894 B. Direct node bin, 5 interleaved warm runs, no minify.
dprint 0.60.1 vs Prettier 3.9.9 on 180 files (120 JS + 40 JSON + 20 MD, 38925 B pristine): write medians 514 ms vs 1586 ms; check 455 ms vs 1313 ms. Output 44805 vs 45285 B. All 120 JS files differed on arrow-param parentheses under these defaults.
Terser 5.51.2 vs esbuild 0.28.2 vs SWC 1.16.13 minify on a 403,418-byte unminified ESM bundle (800 modules): medians 824 ms / 41 ms / 70 ms. Output sizes 219492 / 207619 / 199712 B. Leave Terser if you only need fast minify; keep it for Terser-only compress options.
oxlint 1.87.0 vs ESLint 9.39.4 on react-hook-form (301 files): 0.09 s vs 9.81 s single-thread (6.02 s with --concurrency auto, 1.10 s warm --cache). @oxlint/migrate ported 42 of 84 rules natively, 80 with JS plugins. 315 vs 562 warnings; seeded test 11/15 native, 13/15 with JS plugins, ESLint 15/15.