Previously, even if an entry-point did not need to be processed, ngcc would always parse the files of the entry-point to compute its dependencies. This can take a lot of time for large node_modules. Now these dependencies are cached in the entry-point manifest, and read from there rather than computing them every time. See https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/36414\#issuecomment-608401834 FW-2047 PR Close #36486