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0 pointscbsmith10y ago0 comments

Kind of hilarious that we're worried about code size in browsers these days.

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Klathmon10y ago· 1 in thread

It's not disk size that we care about, it's memory size. Reducing the space that the "parsed" code takes up in memory will reduce the amount of memory used by the engine.

cbsmithOP10y ago

> It's not disk size that we care about, it's memory size.

Yeah, I get it. We have a lot of memory these days. Gigabytes. Not always enough for images and videos, but for code? for client-side browser code that is downloaded & run on the fly? Makes you wonder how we got there.

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