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Does this actually do anything? Why not just gzip the transmission?
by rocky1138 8y ago
Does this actually do anything? Why not just gzip the transmission?
- bobblywobbles 8y agoMinification along with gzip gives slightly better compression than with gzip alone. Even if it is a slight gain, why not set it up once and forget it?
- userbinator 8y agoYou can think of it like PNG vs JPG --- the former is entropy-coding only, the latter has a lossy transform before entropy coding. Minification is a lossy transform, and if it didn't provide any benefits, no one would be using JPG or any lossy video format.