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>That's an... interesting optimization, and one that might make sense if you only care about byte size, but intuition (which might be wrong!) tells me that this will be more expensive (especially if it saves only one or two bytes).

This is an interesting premise, do you know of any tools that optimize web pages for parsing and rendering speed as opposed to size? I wrote a tool once that bundles and archives webpages for offline viewing, and in those cases network throughput is not an issue since files are stored locally. It could be interesting to see what performance benefits I might be able to get from optimizing for parsing speed in this case, although I suspect the performance differences will be so negligible that it won't make much of a difference. Still would be an interesting experiment nonetheless.