Re: proposal: css compression via aliasing specification

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Joey Bradshaw <
joey_bradshaw@strandedpirate.com> wrote:

> Tested out a full alias replacement on a file that was 134KB on disk and
> these were the results:****
>
> ** **
>
> * *
>
> *aliased*
>
> *normal*
>
> *Savings*
>
> *no gzip*
>
> 112.1****
>
> 133.6****
>
> 16.1%****
>
> *no gzip + minification*
>
> 76.1****
>
> 99.7****
>
> 23.7%****
>
> *gzip*
>
> 19.2****
>
> 20****
>
> 4.0%****
>
> *gzip + minification*
>
> 14.6****
>
> 15.8****
>
> 7.6%****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Too lazy to see the results of doing vendor prefixes..****
>

Basically, then, the 20kB difference pre-gzip becomes roughly a 1kB
difference post-gzip.  That's what I meant by "relatively tiny".

~TJ