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Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How much of that is third-party libraries, and/or third-party hosted? Obviously the assets (images and music) aren’t being counted.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

The whole page transferred about 7kB and shows 18.2kB of ressources according to the debug tools.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The game also requires a renderer (browser) to play.

I think what they did is impressive but the claim about the size feels like taking source code and saying "look how small on disk it is"

[–] sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is js, it is always source code.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except if it's minified for production.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That is still source code, obfuscated but still source code.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Not sure about GreaseMonkey, but V8 compiles JS to an IL.

Nodejs has an emit IL debugging feature to see the emitted IL code.