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As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

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Re: As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

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Post by jc4p »

Some of the workarounds he mentions at the end of his Trello in 4096 bytes[1] post seem really interesting:

- I optimized for compression by doing things the same way everywhere; e.g. I always put the class attribute first in my tags

- I wrote a utility that tried rearranging my CSS, in an attempt to find the ordering that was the most compressible

[1] http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes

Re: As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

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Post by baddox »

jc4p wrote: post #2

Some of the workarounds he mentions at the end of his Trello in 4096 bytes[1] post seem really interesting: - I optimized for compression by doing things the same way everywhere; e.g. I always put the class attribute first in my tags - I wrote a utility that tried rearranging my CSS, in an attempt to find the ordering that was the most compressible [1] http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes

> - I optimized for compression by doing things the same way everywhere; e.g. I always put the class attribute first in my tags

Compression algorithms can do a better job when they're domain-aware. An HTML-aware algorithm could compress HTML much better than a general-use plain-text compression algorithm, without requiring the user to do things like put the class attribute first. Of course, that also requires the decompression algorithm to be similarly aware, which can be a problem if you're distributing the compressed bits widely.

Re: As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

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Post by mberning »

Very impressive. I wish extreme performance goals and requirements would become a new trend. I think we have come to accept a certain level of sluggishness in web apps. I hate it.

I wrote a tire search app a few years back and made it work extremely fast given the task at hand. But I did not go to the level that this guy did. http://tiredb.com

Re: As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes

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Post by bane »

mberning wrote: post #6

Very impressive. I wish extreme performance goals and requirements would become a new trend. I think we have come to accept a certain level of sluggishness in web apps. I hate it. I wrote a tire search app a few years back and made it work extremely fast given the task at hand. But I did not go to the level that this guy did. http://tiredb.com

Now that we have blisteringly fast computers, it's worth it to browse old websites and see what "snappy" looks like.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

If we could cram more modern functionality into say...twice or three times the performance of the above, I think the web would be a better place. Instead the web is a couple orders of magnitude slower.

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