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azemetre04/01/20251 replyview on HN

Agreed. I don't think people realize that 5mb of a PNG is way different than 5mb of JS. The browser parsers that PNG way way faster than it parses JS.


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FridgeSeal04/01/2025

The PNG also doesn’t then go off and start pulling even more data down off the network.