Contribution

• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Describe the user story

Currently we use JSON to store the package metadata files in cache and the index files in the store. Instead of storing JSON we could store V8-serialized buffers. v8 serialize/deserialize is faster than parsing and stringifying JSON.

However, the buffer generated by one version of v8 is not compatible with another version of v8. As a result, the cache created by pnpm running on one Node.js version will not be compatible with pnpm running on another version of Node.js. So, we need to store this cache files per v8 engine version.

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Describe alternatives you've considered

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