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malts··on Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
The 5% gains over minified code are impressive given that BinJS performs no AST manipulation.

The BinJS prototype will be written in pure javascript I assume to speed its adoption?

malts··on Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
Does BinJS perform AST transforms like `!0` to `true` which would be shorter in binary AST encoding? Or does it faithfully model the original code?
malts··on Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
Yoric - the Binary AST size comparisons in the blog - was the original javascript already minified?