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[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't we have compression built into http already?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

I guess it’s easier and safer to make a string replace for each function name beforehand than hoping the compression algorithm will figure that out.

Also, as SpaceCowboy points out, comments are completely useless for the final web page. There’s no need to even compress them.