add explanation of chokidar's resource consumption #126
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What: Add explanation of resource consumption to readme.md
Why: This is likely a primary concern of all developers. Certainly I wanted to know how it worked and what resources it would consume before adding it to my project.
Detail:
Resource Consumption
onchange is based on chokidar a "Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library"
"On MacOS, chokidar by default uses a native extension exposing the Darwin FSEvents API. This provides very efficient recursive watching compared with implementations like kqueue available on most *nix platforms. Chokidar still does have to do some work to normalize the events received that way as well."
"On most other platforms, the fs.watch-based implementation is the default, which avoids polling and keeps CPU usage down. Be advised that chokidar will initiate watchers recursively for everything within scope of the paths that have been specified, so be judicious about not wasting system resources by watching much more than needed."