Reduce compiled Glift size

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Reduce compiled Glift size #108

Closed artasparks closed 8 years ago

artasparks commented 9 years ago

As I write this, Glift is pretty big, for compiled JS -- around 150kbps. There are several reasons for this:

Enums are are all strings, and so are not compressible. This is probably a design flaw, but painful to change now.
We're only doing basic Closure compiling. This should be able to be improved since Glift is now self contained so doesn't need any extern definitions.
There are a lot of unused icons that can be deleted.

artasparks commented 9 years ago

Not sure how much of a problem this is. Experiments with Closure ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS (which admittedly produce non-working code), reduces the size by ~1/3 to 100k. However, just using gzipping, the size is reduced to just 50k. 50k seems ok.

artasparks commented 8 years ago

Realistically, not going to address this in the near future.