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by chintan39 3839 days ago
I am building a chat application(http://tiny.chat) that will use less bandwidth. Is it worth optimizing reduce as many bytes as possible? Or the end user doesn't care if there are couple of extra KB used?
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hanyoon 3839 days ago
A couple KB shouldn't make much of a difference. If your app explodes in popularity, then yes, you should make every effort to optimize.
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chintan39 3839 days ago
My question is does the average joe care if app is using less bandwidth or it doesn't matter.
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hanyoon 3839 days ago
To be honest, for a couple KB's worth of difference, probably not. But I'd assume it'd be good practice to optimize the best you can regardless.
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