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namecoin / electrum-nmc

Namecoin port of Electrum Bitcoin client.

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Look into minification #243

Open JeremyRand opened 4 years ago

JeremyRand commented 4 years ago

Minification could decrease our binary size, which might plausibly be attractive to Tor Browser. See the following tools:

https://github.com/liftoff/pyminifier (GPLv3, no longer maintained)
https://github.com/dflook/python-minifier (MIT, maintained)

As a brief experiment, I found that python-minifier shrunk wallet.py from 23.2 KiB to 16.4 KiB (both numbers are after applying .tar.xz compression).

JeremyRand commented 2 years ago

I think we'd accept a PR that minifies the tarball produced by sdist if an environment variable is set. This would be submitted to a stable release branch, not master. I can then forward the PR to upstream Electrum after we merge it.