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Warputin · 2023-07-05 10:54:45

Yeah I think that’s the reason it didn’t happen ;) not saying it’s impossible to make in less than 2kb, but it would have to be around 1kb to make it really worthwhile, so they could squeeze in more content.

hakim | karma 1706 | avg karma 21.87 · | 2010-09-16 12:45:51+00:00

The total size, although smaller than 10KB, could definitely have been squeezed down much further. But since the limit was 10KB it was hard to find the motivation to do so.

pketh | karma 819 | avg karma 3.79 · | 2020-11-19 20:54:37+00:00

yar, maybe it should've been about js size, ideally closer to the 200kb-of-js club

Galanwe | karma 2913 | avg karma 3.18 · | 2021-04-11 01:51:15+00:00

It does exist, but it's 80MB/s nowadays.

agumonkey | karma 29727 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2014-06-06 11:28:10+00:00

Still surprised there's no intermediate version though. Usually there's one in the 300-500MB, the 90MB is a tiny bit too small.

Warputin | karma 1 | avg karma 0.17 · | 2022-08-11 11:16:29

32kb is nothing these days! Hopefully they have sane caching of their assets, which means it would rarely need to reload the asset.

mixedmath | karma 1339 | avg karma 5.31 · | 2015-10-21 23:01:55

I notice he said the final product was around 700 megabytes, which is a bit absurd. What could he have done to make the final size more reasonable?

mixedmath | karma 1339 | avg karma 5.31 · | 2015-10-22 04:01:57

I notice he said the final product was around 700 megabytes, which is a bit absurd. What could he have done to make the final size more reasonable?

FreakyT | karma 3886 | avg karma 8.34 · | 2018-02-13 17:18:28

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this post.

Still astounding they managed to fit so much into 1.44mb!

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mongol | karma 4931 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2019-06-20 16:00:17+00:00

I think it was way less than that. Wasn't it like ... 2MB?

tsak | karma 138 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2020-07-20 18:02:47+00:00

But only for 8 minutes according to the voice over. Which would come down to 960MB in an ideal scenario (2 MB/s * 8 * 60s).

typon | karma 3796 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2018-11-06 20:54:46+00:00

200KB for the free version seems really small :(

michaelmior | karma 5938 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2017-08-10 16:06:57+00:00

No, it's only ~500KB.

cutler | karma 3121 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2022-07-30 06:52:21

At the expense of unrealistic download size.

jussij | karma 2569 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2014-05-07 00:06:17+00:00

At 2MB that is hardly a large file.

jscheel | karma 1950 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2015-12-30 15:11:21+00:00

To be fair, 194kb is pretty far from "MB's of script downloads".

yuhong | karma 6263 | avg karma 1.05 · | 2015-09-26 18:18:49+00:00

the minimum was 16KB I think (they used 4116s).

btzll | karma 250 | avg karma 6.25 · | 2015-08-16 20:34:38+00:00

I wonder if the bad performance is due to the <1kb requirement.

skeletonjelly | karma 1696 | avg karma 1.81 · | 2012-05-22 08:07:44+00:00

5MB seems a bit small, they'd also have lossless copies right?

cuu508 | karma 2000 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2022-08-25 03:44:40

Yes, then 100KB is usually not enough.