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by yurishimo 1694 days ago
A point that is not immediately front of mind in these discussions is that Gzip/brotli makes these comparisons moot. Similar strings will be referenced with a pointer and take basically zero extra bits down the wire. That's one place where tailwind get's a huge boost. It's a ton of repetitive code that compresses extremely well.

If you use a plugin to sort your class names like Headwind[0] then it can be optimized even further.

0: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=heybourn...