Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React

Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by gothink on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:31PM (#39235956)

I'm not a React dev, so I can't comment on the project itself. Something I noticed on the blog post, though: The image at the top of the page is served uncompressed at a whopping 18.5MB (9751px * 6132px)! Seems a bit extreme for what amounts to a simple logo and some text.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by ricardobeat on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:07PM (#39236644)

Ouch. It’s also downloaded twice (in Safari at least), putting the total page weight at almost 40MB.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by Hrun0 on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:35PM (#39235995)

Nothing a couple of rocket emojis won't fix :D

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by cnasc on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:08PM (#39236963)

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by lifthrasiir on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:45AM (#39237858)

And the file has a very, very faint gradient background with heavy dithering, so lossless compression won't actually help that much (ECT was only able to shave 13% of the file after minutes). In fact it is one of the worst imaginable cases for raster image formats.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by blackoil on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:43AM (#39238091)

18 MB may be odd, but most pages now have multiple images making each page 10s of MB. That makes all discussions about some framework few hundred kb smaller funny.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by paulddraper on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:47AM (#39238107)

Yeah for all the complaints about an extra 500Kb of JS, the real offenders are often images.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by quickthrower2 on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:59AM (#39259305)

But don’t forget you need to download and parse the JS and load that into memory. Plus depending on what it does it may be battery intensive.

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by quickthrower2 on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:57AM (#39259295)

Looks like a job for pure css, or if you are feeling brave, svg!

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Re:Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React by aidenyb on Friday February 09, 2024 @01:33AM (#39312062)

Holy crap you're right, that was a VERY large image, fixed: 18.5MB -> 21KB

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