On Jun 17, 9:29 am, Joost Baaij <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes there are: multipart forms send more data since every field has its own > MIME header. From RFC2388: > > "The multipart/form-data encoding has a high overhead and performance impact > if there are many fields with short values. However, in practice, for the > forms in use, for example, in HTML, the average overhead is not significant." > > If this overhead was deemed not significant in August 1998, in my opinion it > is even less significant now and this is a change we could make without any > problems.
I don't think multipart parsing is very expensive nowadays, but I have some doubts about the efficiency of the Rails/Rack multipart parser. It performs a lot of string operations and if it creates a tempfile even for small files then it can totally kill parsing performance. Someone should benchmark this stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
