# Zerobrew reports faster package installs in development-release benchmark

_Published Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 5:07 AM EDT · Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Zerobrew's maintainers reported median package installation speeds of 5.3x faster with an empty download cache and 56x faster with cached downloads than Homebrew in an October 8 benchmark. The test compared Zerobrew 0.3.5, a development release, with Homebrew 7.0.8 on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro processor.

Both tools install packages built by Homebrew. Zerobrew changes installation after downloading: it relocates files within its own process and links them from a store that identifies content to avoid duplication. The maintainers call the tool experimental and recommend running it alongside Homebrew rather than replacing Homebrew.

## Sources

- [github.com](https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew)

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Published: 2026-10-08T09:07:27.750Z
Story chronology: 2026-10-08T03:23:08.000Z
Retrieved: 2026-10-08T11:38:30.607Z
Publisher: Tech & Business (techandbusiness.org)