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How is this different than zeit's recently released pkg?

The readme says this:

> Pkg hacked fs.* API's dynamically in order to access in-package files, whereas Node.js Compiler leaves them alone and instead works on a deeper level via libsquash. Pkg uses JSON to store in-package files while Node.js Compiler uses the more sophisticated and widely used SquashFS as its data structure.

More sophisticated is not a great way to suggest something ks better. That said, I could image this probably does give better performance if you have a lot of I/O with files in the package.

Maybe they weren't saying that is necessarily better?

Yeah I didn't read it that way either, just a matter of factly "here are the differences" – that section probably could be expanded and clarified.

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