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by xanderjanz 4067 days ago
Useful for obfuscating executable JS for security reasons.
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BinaryIdiot 4067 days ago
Security through obscurity is not security. This would be easy to translate back into the original code anyway. This is also not efficient from a file size perspective which is cancer on the web.
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thomasfoster96 4067 days ago
It'd have to be something that really had to be hidden, because most of these edge cases are very very slow to run.
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berbc 4067 days ago
Why? I believe you have more sophisticated ways of obfuscating code. Those tricks seem to be easy to reverse.
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