Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed(twitter.com)

Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed

https://twitter.com/gavinjoyce/status/691773956144119808/photo/1

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Unfortunate that it's just a link to an image on Twitter, but not entirely surprising. Kicking off a thread to manage stdio is the usual solution, since even polling requires a syscall, which requires memory to change hands, which bumps latency some.