Webpack benchmarks are with ts-loader

[desmap]

A minor nitpick: I've seen that the Webpack benchmarks were done with ts-loader in the respective package.jsons. I did some intense benchmarks against babel a while ago and babel was faster. I think that esbuild should be still faster than that but just want to mention it and I'm curious how your benchmark would change with babel.

[evanw]

Unfortunately @babel/plugin-transform-typescript has some limitations and only works for some TypeScript code. These limitations mean that it's not able to successfully build the TypeScript benchmark. I just tried using Babel now and Webpack gives me lots of errors of the form Identifier '___' has already been declared and warnings of the form export '___' (reexported as '___') was not found in '___'.

[evanw]

Closing this for the reason above. Babel doesn't work with the TypeScript code in the benchmark.