[Discuss] Remove internal caching in favour of cache-loader

[michael-ciniawsky]

I'm submitting a feature request

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Babel Core Version:
^6.0.0

Babel Loader Version:
8.0.0 :)

Please tell us about your environment:
OSX 10.x / Linux / Windows 10

Current behavior:

babel-loader caches files on it's own

Expected/desired behavior:
What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Find a convention for loader caching that works across loaders and doesn't require n implementations

[danez]

We recently change some caching (reading babelrc, checking for file existence etc) to be completely done by webpack (#460) and not the babel-loader. We still cache the actual babel transpile result atm.

If we would remove this it would drastically slow down the loader when not using the cache-loader. I also haven't looked at the cache loader yet and don't know how it works.