A JavaScript minifier that reduces your (minified/packed) JS files by ~10%

xem.github.io

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This... seems to compress JS by packing it into unicode strings. Seems like a clever idea, but it feels very wrong to me even if I can't explain why.

In fact, it converts ascii characters into "extended ascii" characters. So the bytes count is correct.

If you're interested in pack-to-unicode, I did it too: https://gist.github.com/xem/7086007