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		taeric on Jan 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web Linking by hash to all common resources would be bad. You do want fixes and updates, after all.

jacobsenscott on Jan 27, 2017 [–]

Links are already tied to some specific version. Nobody serves "jquery.js" that points to a constantly updated version of jquery. Nobody that's sane anyway.

taeric on Jan 27, 2017 | [–]

Fair. My point was more that for many resources, you probably do appreciate this. Certainly package managers do this. Not sure why web would be different.

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