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the benchmark looks brutal to other bundler

• devongovett 5y ago
  Note that this benchmark is dominated by Terser for minification. All tools aside from ESBuild use it.
  • kabber 5y ago
    Why not minify with esbuild instead by default?
    • devongovett 5y ago
      esbuild tends to produce larger bundles due to https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639 https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639. Looks like there was recent activity though, so we need to re-test. Anyway, there's a plugin available for now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild. We're also excited about the SWC minifier project, which is basically a port of Terser to Rust.
      • kabber 5y ago
        This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.