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6One of the very important factors they're also going to look at is overall size. How big is the script in comparison to Prettify?– animuson StaffModCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 0:14
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@animuson In 2011, it was a few KBs smaller than Prettify. Not sure if that's still accurate, though.– hichris123Commented Oct 23, 2014 at 0:28
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@animuson I count 14,941 bytes for highlight.js, I couldn't figure out Prettify.– BraiamCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 0:29
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The size depends on the languages included in the package. The "common" set of 22 languages is ~35K, the full one may be as big as ~300K but nobody needs that.– isagalaevCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 1:30
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Here's the numbers. With all the languages listed on meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/… highlight.js is 46K, Prettify is 29K (non-gzipped).– isagalaevCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 1:41
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Hmm… Actually, I should say that this size comparison is probably wrong as I looked more closely at the prettify.js linked on StackOverflow and I highly doubt it supports all those languages listed. Some of them may be supported simply as "looks close enough".– isagalaevCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 3:58
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2How is it doing speed-wise? Can you offer a real-time preview?– John DvorakCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 16:31
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@JanDvorak there are two demo links within my question (highlightjs.org/static/stackoverflow/so1.html, highlightjs.org/static/stackoverflow/so2.html), they are real-time highlighting with language detection. In normal cases like these the result is pretty much instantaneous.– isagalaevCommented Oct 23, 2014 at 17:28
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1Here's Stack Overflow's response from 2016: meta.stackexchange.com/a/279361/285250– Gabriel StaplesCommented Jun 16, 2020 at 1:08
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