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True, but I interpreted the OP as criticising any execution of code on module load (other than declaring exports).

Unless loading a file is a bottleneck, which I doubt.

> Unless loading a file is a bottleneck, which I doubt.

Loading a file is a bottleneck in the browser, right?

Right, but I don't see how top level await makes the current situation any worse. Web developers already have to think about the order of script loading and execution.

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