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README: Update for new --uglify-level=full
Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:02 +0100
- author
- Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
- date
- Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:02 +0100
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README: Update for new --uglify-level=full
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--- a/README Thu May 27 15:04:58 2010 +0100 +++ b/README Thu May 27 15:09:02 2010 +0100 @@ -34,11 +34,16 @@ ### Uglify 'Uglification' is the name Squish gives to a certain basic form of compression. With large files it can reduce the size by some kilobytes, even after full minification. It works by replacing Lua keywords with a single byte and -inserting code at the start of the script to expand the keywords when it is run. +inserting some short code at the start of the script to expand the keywords when it is run. #### --uglify Enable the uglification filter. Default is to not uglify. +#### --uglify-level=LEVEL +If the level specified is "full" then Squish will extend its replacement to identifiers and string literals, as +well as Lua keywords. It first assigns each identifier and string a score based on its length and how many times +it appears in the file. The top scorers are assigned single-byte identifiers and replaced the same as the keywords. + ### Gzip Gzip, or rather the DEFLATE algorithm, is extremely good at compressing text-based data, including scripts. Using this extension compresses the squished code, and adds some runtime decompression code. This decompression code adds
