I&#x27;m sure the reason npm3 is slow(er) is primarily because it&#x27;s doing important stuff.<p>However, having played with `ied`, it does flat deps and it&#x27;s literally an order of magnitude faster (10-20x in my testing). I use npm a lot every day and npm&#x27;s slowness is becoming a significant UX issue for me. I would like to continue using npm but right now I would switch if either `ied` or `pnpm` had decent feature parity with `npm install`.