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V8 team just published a blog post about V8 Lite https://v8.dev/blog/v8-lite
It's aimed at dramatically reducing V8鈥檚 memory usage.
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Is there some plan to build a lighter node? Or some config to enable lighter version of node?
That article says that most of the work is already incorporated in "normal" V8, so the benefits of using lite mode are not going to be significant. Secondly, there's nothing special node core has to do to use lite mode, you just pass the relevant V8 flag: --lite-mode. You'll need the latest node v12.x for that though.
For the sake of completeness: there is a "lite mode" build flag but the only thing it changes is whether the --lite_mode flag defaults to on or off.
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That article says that most of the work is already incorporated in "normal" V8, so the benefits of using lite mode are not going to be significant. Secondly, there's nothing special node core has to do to use lite mode, you just pass the relevant V8 flag:
--lite-mode. You'll need the latest node v12.x for that though.