On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 22:32:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 1/16/15 5:23 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 1/16/15 1:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On an embedded product we have with a dead-simple web server,
there is
terrible network performance. Adding gzip support saved way
more than
minification ever could. But the best performance improvement
was to add
caching support to the server. Both the browser and the
server have to
cooperate there.
Pretty cool. The problem I'm having right now is the following
pattern:
1. I have a mini-idea that takes me minutes to implement and
turns the
ratchet in the right direction.
At the cost of adding dependencies for builds, and requiring
builds be done with Internet access. I don't think it's out of
line to ask that if we are going to add extra build
requirements, we should make sure it's really making decent
progress.
Why do we need an external services?
cat style.css |
tr '\n' ' ' |
sed 's/\/\*[^*]*\*\///g' |
sed 's/\s\+/ /g' |
sed 's/ \?\([(){},;]\) \?/\1/g
Strictly speaking, this is overzealous (e.g. it also operates
inside strings), and I didn't even test it, but it will probably
work for almost all cases. The current main CSS file of dlang.org
(style.css) shrinks from 14757 to 11720 bytes, a reduction of
~21%.
But even writing a compressor in D should be trivial, as you'd
only need a lexer.
2. I post it here in the hope that others will build upon or
come with
better ideas.
3. I get feedback here that essentially demonstrates me that
if I spent
some hours or days on a small research project on a better
idea, it
would yield better results.
I think you misunderstand. We are not saying "do a research
project", it takes seconds to gzip 2 files (the minified and
not minified) and see the size difference. If it's
super-significant, let's go for it! If you send me the minified
file, I can test it for you.
There doesn't need to be any research, but all the suggestions
that have been provided have NOT required extra tools or
dependencies. That is a significant difference.
-Steve
