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		zwetan on Feb 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript Start-up Performance surprised about this specific part "bytecode can increase your load-time (it’s larger)" how come bytecode is larger than plain text? I don't know the specifics of the V8 bytecode, but for the AVM2 which load pre-compiled ActionScript as bytecode, the load time is faster, faster than the JVM for example.

eberkund on Feb 11, 2017 [–]

I'm guessing because for many operations that are a few characters to type in JS actually require many, many byte code instructions to represent.

rounce on Feb 11, 2017 | [–]

Gzip!

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