0018402: Investigate whether minifying JS files on non-debug builds can improve load times

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0018402	MMW 5	General	public	2021-10-10 01:54	2023-03-10 14:30

Reporter	drakinite	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	5.0
Target Version	5.2

Summary	0018402: Investigate whether minifying JS files on non-debug builds can improve load times
Description	Eval time is high on some of our larger files. It may be worth attempting to minify source files on non-debug builds, not to improve space efficiency but to reduce the time it takes Chromium to evaluate and run the JS. With some rudimentary testing on a library with a compressed and non compressed version (three.js), the non compressed version took up to 2x the time to load (~80ms vs ~40ms). Some future testing would have to be done to identify whether minifying our source files would actually improve load times.
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Fixed in build

Ludek 2023-03-10 14:30 developer ~0071340	eval/requirejs is no longer used in 5.1 Assigned to Drakinite to test the times on 5.1 build with the ES6 import usage.