On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Steven S. Critchfield <[email protected]> wrote: > umm, minify removes a lot of things from the compression stream. minify > on it's own is not the answer. But you would be surprised what a little > minify and one time gziping of a file will gain you.
Not much more than letting Apache compress it into memory once on the first request. > Then you can serve > out those files with no CPU overhead, The CPU cost of Apache gzip is only once per file per Apache restart, nearly 0% of total CPU costs in production. With minify you have that extra step slowing down your re-deploy. > Yes many of us love to bash on MySQL. Many of us have dealt with the > beast and have our battle scars. Many of us act like hurt puppies with little cause. Oracle, is a beast. JBoss, is a beast. MySQL showed the world how to be open source and make a huge profit doing it. > BTW, market share doesn't prove anything is better than something else. Market share is everything. Who among us wants to work for free? How many jobs has PostgreSQL contributed to society? Tom Lane and friends are not worth a billion dollars, so I can only guess.. is it the jealousy factor getting to all you "PostgreSQL or die" folks? > Just remember that 50% of the population is below average intelligence, > then decide if you want to follow the crowd. You've collected zero database developer IQs, this argument is nil. Happy snow days :) -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/
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