This example project demonstrates that module loading performance is 3.44x time better on Linux compared to Windows platform on same machine.

CPU profiles and time measurements made on the following specs using npm run debug command:

• NodeJs version: 12.7.0
• OS type: 64-bit
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz × 8
• Memory: 8GB
• Drive: 256.1GB SSD

Windows 10 Pro

PS C:\Users\mucsi\repos\nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue> npm start

> nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue@1.0.0 start C:\Users\mucsi\repos\nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue
> node index.js

Hello world
Total time: 1362.697099

Ubuntu 19.04

igor@igor:~/nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue$ npm start

> nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue@1.0.0 start /home/igor/nodejs-windows-vs-linux-performace-issue
> node index.js

Hello world
Total time: 395.882499