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The direct quote from Mihai from my e-mail reads: "The benefits of the compiler system are tremendous. The most obvious are the size ones, without it Reader's J
by louismg 17y ago
The direct quote from Mihai from my e-mail reads: "The benefits of the compiler system are tremendous. The most obvious are the size ones, without it Reader's JavaScript would be 2 megaytes, with it it goes down to 513K, and 184K with gzip (the compiler's output is actually optimized for gzip, since nearly all browsers support it)."
(I left in the typo for this excerpt)
-- I'm the author of the piece. I can't say why Reader's JS would be so high. I assume RSS can be heavy, and many feeds at once can be browser intensive.
- barrkel 17y agoThere is no necessary relationship between the size of code (the JS) and the size of data ("many feeds at once"), and since data is almost always much larger than the code, there is proportionally very little benefit from reducing code size to fit more data.