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		pbhjpbhj on Dec 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookie... "some savings" says the parent. A diminishing return is still a return.

coldtea on Dec 3, 2013 [–]

And 0.0000000000001 of a dollar is still money. Yet it's meaningless to do anything about getting it...

darkmighty on Dec 3, 2013 | [–]

I can say the savings would probably be greater than the 50 bytes he saved on the domain name. Compressing is not magical, if you compress class names you're still storing at least one instance of each name plus overhead.

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