Doc: "keep_infinity" is redundant on modern Chrome #2743
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Clarify that "keep_infinity" compress option is only useful for older versions of Chrome. The initial performance assessment that concluded `Infinity` was faster than `1/0` was based on Chrome 57. mishoo#1723 (comment) Chrome 63 suffers no such degradation. https://jsperf.com/infinity-vs-1-0-v2-0
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Chrome no longer penalizes The default is: No harm keeping the option. |
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| - `keep_infinity` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to prevent `Infinity` from | ||
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| being compressed into `1/0`, which may cause performance issues on old versions of Chrome. |
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It would be better to state when Chrome reached performance parity for 1/0 and Infinity. If not the specific version, at least the year.
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Not that having more options is bad, but does anyone out there actually switches this on? |
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I noticed @std/esm was using keep_infinity which initially sparked my
curiosity.
https://github.com/standard-things/esm/blob/master/.uglifyrc
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Not that having more options is bad, but does anyone out there actually
switches this on?
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Clarify that "keep_infinity" compress option is only useful for older versions of Chrome.
The initial performance assessment that concluded
Infinitywas faster than1/0was based on Chrome 57.#1723 (comment)
Chrome 63 suffers no such degradation.
https://jsperf.com/infinity-vs-1-0-v2-0