WebIDE minify

Hi Gordon,

Proberly i found out and isolated why in WebIDE minify was not working. This code works without minify:

var ha=function(){
    this.ok={};
    
    self=this;
};

Google Closure compiler fires an error:

JSC_CONSTANT_REASSIGNED_VALUE_ERROR: constant self assigned a value more than once at line 4 character 4
    self=this;

The propper code should be:

var ha=function(){
    this.ok={};
    
    var self=this;
};

Now minify is working in WebIDE too. We do not see if the minify process had some problem. Is there a way to see the log/output of the built in minifier ?

Thx

Sacha

Thanks for the update. I've just added an issue for this: https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoWebIDE/issues/65

It's just the online Google Closure compiler, so yes - we should be able to see if there are errors.

Does the "whitespace only" method also remove comments? I believe I read somewhere that comments slow down the execution speed as well as whitespace.

I've just tested this, and yes - it does remove comments as well :)

And yes, comments do slow execution down - but only when inside a function - so if you put comments before the start of a function it won't make any difference at all.