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		calibwam on June 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (2012) However, your js files would get really big, and download latency could actually be a performance drop.

xxs on June 2, 2014 [–]

True, however they should be very well compressible by 'deflate' too, the main concern is the initial parsing grok by the JIT. Yet, on runtime the scripts will be good as any.

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