>Why "minimum amount of code changes"? I would have thought the goal of minification would be to make the code as small as possible even if it requires a lot of

>Why "minimum amount of code changes"? I would have thought the goal of minification would be to make the code as small as possible even if it requires a lot of changes. You're agreeing. Minification makes things as small as possible. No one said otherwise. The "minimum amount of code changes" could very well be "a lot of changes".