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🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃 JS minification benchmarks: babel-minify, esbuild, terser, uglify-js, swc, google closure compiler, tdewolff/minify, oxc-minify

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-02-06 · latest 2026-03-16

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    JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
    story by javatuts · 2026-03-16 · 0 comments
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    JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
    story by javatuts · 2026-03-13 · 0 comments
  3. …without any minification or even compression, but otherwise minification is clearly beneficial. [1] https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2024-08-29 · in OpenAI is good at unminifying code
  4. …advanced AST optimization. This website has real life data on the matter for popular libraries: * https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks Compare the trophies indicating smallest size for Minified versus Minzipped (gzip).…
    comment by seenthat · 2023-07-17 · in Minify and Gzip (2022)
  5. It would be helpful to see how Bun's minifier compares to the others with popular libraries: https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks
    comment by fluente · 2023-05-16 · in Bun 0.6
  6. This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.
    comment by kabber · 2021-10-14 · in Parcel v2
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    JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
    story by wagslane · 2021-02-06 · 69 comments