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mminer237 on Oct 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor

For comparison, 7-zipped modernizr.weird.js is only 17.85KB which is almost exactly 2½x the size of the original.

crazygringo on Oct 17, 2023 [–]

Ah thank you! That feels far more sane.

I don't think I've ever seen such a dramatic difference in compression rates before. It's fascinating to see.

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