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by leeoniya 2448 days ago
if you enable a bunch of unsafe options they can do some of them, but they tend to err on the safe side when it comes to native built-in methods like these on Date objects.

also, some minifiers optimize for gzip size where the effect is not as drastic, but the browser still has to parse the un-gzipped source afterwards. it depends on the weighted costs built into each minifier.