On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:52:01 +0200, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> wrote: > Jeremy, > > What I meant is, if you use a sendfile system call to send raw files from > the disk, how does this interact with gzip compression, which clearly cannot > be used when using a sendfile call? I ask because you implied there were > significant performance gains from using sendfile.
I guess you can either gzip the file to another temporary one and sendfile the temporary gz one (even maybe cache it) or abandon sendfile and stream out a gzip of file contents. The former could be more performant. Regards, -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
