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Re:Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance by xnorswap on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:18AM (#41971261)
That struck me as odd too.

It may be just additional HTTP headers added to the response, but then it's hardly fair to use that as a point of comparison and treat smaller as "better".

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Re:Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance by loeg on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:05PM (#41973483)
I think your guess is spot on. The QRcode images themselves are 594 and 577 bytes. The vast majority of the difference must be coming from other factors (HTTP headers).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973396

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Re:Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance by pretzelhammer on Monday October 28, 2024 @03:14PM (#41974940)
Author here. The benchmarking tool I used for measuring response size was vegeta, which ignores HTTP headers in its measurements. I believe the difference in size is indeed in the QR code images themselves.
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