[HTTPS-Everywhere] "make uncommitted" becoming obsolete; new XML format, and other goodies

[Peter Eckersley]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:49:08PM -0700, Maxim Nazarenko wrote:
> Precompilation? Binary XML?
> 
> On 13 July 2011 15:36, Jeroen van der Gun <jeroen at blijbol.nl> wrote:
> > If you put everything in a single XML file, wouldn't it also be useful for
> > performance reasons to minify this file (e.g. strip white space, line
> > breaks, comments) to make it parse faster and to keep the file size down?

All of the above are worthwhile suggestions (another win would be to leave
the file gzipped on installation, and decompress it from within Firefox at load
time, which would save another ~250 kB of disk IO).  

However these things are all diminishing returns from the change we just made,
so we'll consider patches to implement them but aren't planning on doing so
ourselves.

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