"require external module babel-register" takes long time to execute

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I am new to gulp, whenever I run gulp SOME_TASK it says "require external module babel-register". This takes a solid 20 seconds or so. The actual task takes milliseconds to complete.

What is happening here? How do I fix it? What is this babel-register?

I tried npm install babel-register. It did not fix the problem.

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{
  ...,
  "retainLines": true
}

Adding this to my .babelrc made everything a lot faster!

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