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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How much of that is third-party libraries, and/or third-party hosted? Obviously the assets (images and music) aren’t being counted.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

The whole page transferred about 7kB and shows 18.2kB of ressources according to the debug tools.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The game also requires a renderer (browser) to play.

I think what they did is impressive but the claim about the size feels like taking source code and saying "look how small on disk it is"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It is js, it is always source code.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except if it's minified for production.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That is still source code, obfuscated but still source code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure about GreaseMonkey, but V8 compiles JS to an IL.

Nodejs has an emit IL debugging feature to see the emitted IL code.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 2 months ago

They are.