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		mrb on Dec 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jean-Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated with 19K... It appears there was little to no attempt to optimize for a small code size. The code could be minified and simplified to a lot less than 19 kB. I was curious to look at the size of a decent MIDI version of Oxygène IV (https://www.nonstop2k.com/midi-files/4259-jean-michel-jarre-...) and when gzip-compressed it is only 5,690 bytes.

reindernijhoff on Dec 28, 2022 [–]

I think the cool thing about this version is that the whole sound wave (including the code for the synthesizers) is generated by one single piece of javascript (<19 kb). So it is more about the code itself than the code size.

jacquesm on Dec 28, 2022 | [–]

It puts the term 'softsynth' to good use. Incredible, really.

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