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Minification 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?
by bobblywobbles 8y ago
Minification 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.