Zod 4 got rid of a bunch of CPUs for us

kept by eddie oct 15

Trigger.dev upgraded to Zod 4.5, cutting worker CPU by nearly a third and boosting throughput, then became Zod's first Platinum Sponsor.

Zod 4.5
Zod 4.5 introduces ahead‑of‑time schema compilation with z.compile(), cutting memory use up to 9× and adding features like z.creditCard() and z.validate().
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GitHub - gajus/zod-compiler: Compile Zod schemas into zero-overhead validation functions at build time. Works with Vite, webpack, esbuild, Rollup, etc
The zod-compiler tool compiles Zod schemas into zero-overhead validation functions at build time, providing 2-75x faster validation without requiring any code changes.
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