JS syntax is not malformed. Some of the minifiers require certain approach, which doesn't necessarily mean it's the only right way. Please, don't blow it out of proportion. Cleaning and unifying JSs is a good thing of course, but in this particular case performance gains would be negligible, so we have to take other priorities.

For example, when Apple released OS X Leopard, it had GIGABYTES of unused code, and still they didn't consider the issue critical, and released the OS with great success. see more Later they came up with Snow Leopard and cleaned it for the most part. It's not an issue of poor/lazy coding - it's an issue of software that's in development for almost 10 years, and by hundreds of people.

We have made a lot of tests in the last few weeks, and realised that cleaning code would only give us 5-50% performance increases depending on files. Proper server configurations, however, give 500% or more improvement.

Now, we created a ticket, admitted that there's a room for improvement and planned it out for when we can work on this. Why would you keep persisting and making it sound like there's a cholera decease packed with Dolphin? You found misspellings and unused code, great, why don't you contribute your specific findings and fixes?


TO EVERYONE WHO'S READING THIS:

Calm down, please. This is NOT a critical issue. This issue does NOT significantly hinder Dolphin performance. Dolphin 7.0.3 is coming soon with great performance improvements and 7.1 will be an even better step. Following our server configuration guidelines would give you 10-20 time higher performance boost compared to even super-clean JSs. Choose good hosting and pursue proper configuration and your Dolphin site will fly. We have recently examined an active site working on a properly configured SHARED (cheap) hosting with 50,000+ active members working great.