Subj : SUCCESS!  Re: Compacting JS source via ParseTree or Decompile
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Dan Libby
Date : Wed Jun 09 2004 02:18 am

Local and argument renaming is working!!   Results:

Original script:         119024
jscompact, no renaming:  61736  (saved 48%)
jscompact, w/ renaming:  44104  (saved 63%)

And all of this before gzip compression by the webserver, which will 
squeeze it further.  :)

Brendan, many thanks for all your help.  Without your insightful 
comments, I'm sure I'd have already given up. I feel you are as much the 
author as I am.

Okay, so tomorrow I have some cleaning up to do, and some testing. 
After that, I plan to release this.

My first inclination is to put it on Sourceforge.  I think that will 
give it the most visibility, and one of the reasons I wrote it was to 
create a viable open-source alternative to the [mostly crappy] 
commercial programs some companies are charging [imho] too much for.

But given that the tool is mostly just a wrapper for existing libjs 
functionality and it uses internal data structures, perhaps it belongs 
at mozilla.org.  I'll do you as you folks prefer in that regard.

For licensing, I can either do straight GPL or MPL/GPL mix.  Any advice?

thanks again!

Dan

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