Composer

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Massive improvements in terms of both speed and memory usage with new Composer.

The difference depends on your use case, so while I've seen reports of improvements of over 50% to both in some projects, I cannot put an exact number on it.

As a side note to this, require/remove and partial updates are now much faster because Composer will now only load the metadata of the packages which are being changed.

A Module from drupal.org can be installed manually or with the composer tool, which supposes to be already installed on your server.

A Module is a software that needs to be maintained from time to time, it even has fixes for the current features, and sometimes new features, some of the major updates will come as a normal module update, and can be done via the upgrade page, but sometimes there is a need for fast push of small fix, this is called patch.

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