[incrudible]

First of all, you're probably bundling your code, stripping comments, have tree-shaking eliminate parts of it. That's already a form of obfuscation. Then, minification will affect performance of parsing, it can even affect whether a function gets inlined by the JIT compiler, because character length is a very cheap heuristic. Whether I care about that or not is my judgement call.

[marcosdumay]

> character length is a very cheap heuristic

Unless your interpreter is trying to optimize text blocks, op-code length will be cheaper and way easier to develop.

[incrudible]

The existence of interpreter opcodes implies you have already compiled the code for the interpreter, but with this heuristic you can send this function straight to JIT.