06 May 2006 1 comment Python
Last week I wrote about a hope of slimming "private functions in Javascript" but realized that it was futile since it's not really possible. It led me to another idea where I rewrite all long-named functions within the code and relabel them at the end. The idea is that code that looks like this:
function parseSomething(z) {
...
}
function foo(x, y) {
return parseSomething(x) + parseSomething(y);
}
foo(1,2);
becomes this:
function _A(z) {
...
}
function _B(x, y) {
return _A(x) + _A(y);
}
_B(1,2);
var parseSomething=_A;
None of the functionality is ruined and in this case we save about 10bytes.
It's not a huge save but that's also why it only takes effect if you use the --hardcore parameter. The --hardcore parameter also corrects the parameter variables inside the functions. Allow me to demonstrate:
peterbe@trillian:~ $ python slimmer.py --hardcore --test plone.js
Took 1.887 seconds
Bytes before: 92739
Bytes after: 47593
Bytes after zlib: 15081
Bytes saved: 45146 (44K) (51.0% of original size)
peterbe@trillian:~ $ python slimmer.py --test plone.js
Took 0.467 seconds
Bytes before: 92739
Bytes after: 51088
Bytes after zlib: 15179
Bytes saved: 41651 (40K) (55.0% of original size)
It's not a huge improvement with these new "hardcore techniques" but it at least works.
Peter, I don't know about the JavaScript, but I bet you'll get a few funny search engine queries for this page :-)