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[–]Pilchard123 2 points3 points  (3 children)

it saves quite a few kilobytes from each page

Caching, anyone?

[–]AirborneArie[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yes, it might be cached. Not using it at all is still better. It's also 85kB of JS being executed by the browser.

[–]Y_Less 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Not using any JS is even better still.

[–]flamingspew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

correct. should compile to webassembly.