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osteele 11 months ago | parent | favorite | on: Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON re...

An extra character will cause 1/512 of responses to take an extra packet, so the amortized cost is still one character per response. Presumably this matters at scale.

jcoffland 11 months ago

Not if your average response is less than 512.

If your responses are all between 505 and 512 in length then it might matter but most likely you are prematurely optimizing.

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