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by pdyc 607 days ago
That's correct, people in this thread are comparing single compressed dependency of sqlite+wasm of 400KB to the total size of web pages which run in MB. I did some actual tests while trying to use sqlite and it does adds noticeable delay on first page load on mobile due to big size+decompression+ additional scaffolding of wasm. Pages that run into MB have small files that are downloaded concurrently so the delay is not noticeable. I wrote about this and my other expriments with in browser db in my last article but it did not get any traction here.