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I mean you can compress those identifiers further into "op-codes-of-sorts" by renaming each to a 1-char but then that's what any minifier does

• flamedoge 10y ago
  why stop there? just compress the entire dang thing and add decompressor in the execution.
  • dualogy 10y ago
    "We're" (many) already doing that too via gzipped responses (faster to decompress than to compress == neat for web uses). That's my point, a higher language is already "compressing" machine representation (all abstractions kinda do), minification turns its lengthy identifiers into minimal "codes", then the gzip.
    • flamedoge 10y ago
      hm.. I assume gzip is doing a lot of entropy reduction already.. curious if minification has reduced or nil effect after gzip.