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Investigating the overhead cost of compiled es2015

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-02-02 · latest 2017-12-30

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  1. Are you referring to https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i... ? These benchmarks are about the cost of transpilation (where ES6 support is not native).
    comment by tilt · 2016-04-25 · in Node.js ES2015/ES6 support
  2. Ironically the same person who first reported this npm vulnerability used the wrong package name uglifyjs instead of uglify-js in an unrelated github project. https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/936#issuecomment-...…
  3. Maybe this should link to the upstream? https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i...
    comment by wldcordeiro · 2016-02-08 · in The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016
  4. The Closure example failed to pass the compiler flags to minify the code, so the numbers are wrong. At a first glance, the Closure output is about half the size of the numbers published there. https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpi…
  5. Hi, member of the TypeScript team here. A big reason for the file size increase seems to be the inclusion of an AMD module loader and AMD prologues themselves. By targeting CommonJS and using Browserify, you see a nice decrease. I've sent…
    comment by DanRosenwasser · 2016-02-03 · in Investigating the overhead cost of compiled ES2015
  6. I was just going to comment that it would be interesting to see the size of a run-through with browserify+uglifyify+uglify but looks like there is already a PR for it. https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i...