Vercel cut pnpm install times by 14% on average for Pro deployments with restored build cache, with no configuration required.
The mechanism is dependency verification reuse. When dependencies are unchanged from the previous deployment, Vercel skips reverification entirely, reducing installs to milliseconds instead of seconds. This applies automatically across all plans.
The original changelog includes before and after timing visuals that make the performance delta concrete. Worth a look if you are optimizing CI spend or chasing faster deployment feedback loops.
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