Re: Introducing W3C's JavaScript repository

timeless <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:16:35 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.specifications
Message-ID <CACsW8eH_BFn+bSvqk6ppS++6_Vrfk3mzKgGOOs0VYs40BNXB1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Sangwhan Moon wrote:
> Going back to the original problem at hand, wouldn't this service not be
needed if the underlying filesystem was moved to a filesystem with support
for deduplication?

There may be a theoretical space benefit to the Host server, but the main
benefit is to people reading specs, as their web browsers are likely to
have a cached version of the file, and thus fewer hits to the webserver.