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Re:Htmx by yawaramin on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:22PM (#33994739)
Um, 'parsing...data out of an HTML microformat' sounds like a fancy way and obscure way of saying 'the browser renders HTML, something it has been optimized to the gills for'.

> Parsing a protobuf is probably at least 10x faster

Faster than a browser rendering HTML? That would be quite a feat.

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Re:Htmx by t8sr on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:36AM (#33995667)
Yes, I am implicitly assuming that eventually someone will connect to it as an API, not just to directly render the HTML but to machine-process it.
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