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by icebraining
3839 days ago
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Try looking at the source of Google.com and saying all it's doing in under a minute. You could look at the APIs it's using - why is it calling XMLHttpRequest or looking at the user's cookies? - but you can do the same with binaries, you just have to use a tool, e.g. 'nm -D <binary>' shows you the external functions the program calls. I held the same position until circa 2008 (?), when JS minifying became truly widespread; nowadays, I think that battle is already lost. |
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(Please mind that there has to be a strict relation between a minified code and a plain source code provided at some repository. This is not true, at least in terms of the resources needed to verify this and the probability of this being covered by average budgets, for binary codes. – Recommended reading: "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson)
Edit: At best you're winning a year's worth of Moore's law in performance and are paying for it in terms of page load. On the down-side, binary code is just as bad an idea as e-voting: You're putting the interests of your users against literary trillions of dollars of interest in exploiting the system (yes, the leverage would be enorme) – and if the worst has become true, it's already too late to revert.