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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by agumonkey on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:50AM (#22117055)
Talking about that, rust html docs gobs a whopping 400MB (2/3 of the install size IIRC). When compressed they're 22MB.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by cesarb on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:05AM (#22118093)
Not long ago, there was support on Firefox to directly open HTML pages within compressed files (through the jar: protocol). If that still existed, it would be an option to distribute the rust HTML docs within a compressed .jar file, and let the browser read directly from it.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by agumonkey on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:29AM (#22118933)
yeah that's a pity

albeit there's still zcat

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:23AM (#22117292)
Rust and cargo are quite wasteful of disk space anyway, they should fix that first. 400MB is a drop in the bucket.
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