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soften language for d/l time saved, + GZip note #6

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Expand Up @@ -296,15 +296,17 @@ It can be difficult to refactor or maintain applications built this way.
On the plus side, all browsers natively support this approach and no server-side
tooling is required.

This approach tends to be very slow since each `<script>` tag initiates a
new round-trip http request.
This approach may be slower since each `<script>` tag initiates a new round-trip
http request.

### concatenate

Instead of window globals, all the scripts are concatenated beforehand on the
server. The code is still order-sensitive and difficult to maintain, but loads
much faster because only a single http request for a single `<script>` tag needs
to execute.
server. The code is still order-sensitive and difficult to maintain. However,
a concatenated file will help save a few http packets, since only a single http
request for a single `<script>` tag needs to execute. Also, a singe GZipped
file will likely be smaller than the sum of several separate files. Both of
these optimizations will help save precious downloading time.

Without source maps, exceptions thrown will have offsets that can't be easily
mapped back to their original files.
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