Deploy takes very long - sometimes as much as 50 mins

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and this gets worse if your subflows nest subflows.

each instance creates all its internal nodes and if any of those are subflow instances, they are created too. It really doesnt take much to get to huge numbers

Example:

  • Subflow1: 10 regular nodes, 5 Subflow2 nodes
  • Subflow2: 20 regular nodes
  • Main flows: use 100 Subflow1s and 100 regular nodes

this means 100 + (100 * (10 + (5 * 20))) == 11100 nodes to be created, setup, initialised etc etc.


Contrast that with link-calls (aka pure functions):

  • Subroutine1: 1 link-in, 10 regular nodes, 5 link calls to Subroutine2, 1 link-return
  • Subroutine2: 1 link-in, 20 regular nodes, 1 link-return
  • Main flows: use 100 link calls to Subroutine1 and 100 regular nodes

this means 100 + 100 + 2 + 20 + 2 + 10 + 5 == 239 nodes