simplehttp server needs to gzip compress static files returned (especially .wasm files) about vugu

[erinpentecost]

It might also be worth running files through a minifier like tdewolff/minify before compression.

[bradleypeabody]

Brotli has good browser support (https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli ) and from my initial testing reduces wasm file size by about an additional 1/3 (e.g. www.vugu.org/main.wasm is 13.4M uncompressed, 2.8M with gzip -9 and 1.9M with brotli).

This should be used as an alternative to gzip where possible (request header needs to have Accept-Encoding with br in it and server needs to have brotli compressor available). But also, this may not be a good choice during development - since gzip is much faster for compression. If the wasm file is changing all the time, it will slow things down a lot.

Check out https://github.com/dsnet/compress/tree/master/brotli

Or possibly could be called through CGO or even just command line.

[JalonSolov]

Slightly more recently updated brotli lib, with both encode/decode:

https://github.com/andybalholm/brotli

[bradleypeabody]

Thanks @JalonSolov that definitely looks promising.