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On Apr 27, 2:45 pm, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > Text compresses very well, and usually much faster than the network IO > handles data. Example: let's say you have a 100KB/s link. If your main > page is 100KB, it takes a second to transfer it. Compressing 100K > takes WAY less than 1 sec and decompressing even less than that. Also, > in the time you're decompressing you can download the images in > parallel, effectively increasing overall browsing speed. > > From the server aspect, CPU is usually cheap. Compressed pages means > connections can be ended sooner, which in turn lowers memory > requirements and improves response time. > > So, unless your pages are really small or already compressed, it > almost always pays to compress. Not to mention bandwidth cost. The > exception is if this is an intranet or localhost deployment. > > On Apr 27, 9:31 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There are two issues here: > > > 1) yes applications should be zipped. We can support both .tar > > and .zip to avoid backward compatibility problems. Has been on my list > > of things to do. Perhaps somebody will send me a patch. > > > 2) data should (should?) be transmitted zipped by the web server. > > cherrpypy's wsgiserver cannot do it but apache does it. It is not > > clear that there is a real benefit since it takes time to zip/unzip. > > > Massimo > > > On 27 Apr, 08:27, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't know how hard/easy it would be to convince cherrypy to gzip > > > content on the http level. It would actually make sense to have that > > > option for ALL text content, too, to minimize bandwidth use (this is a > > > web server level option, completely transparent to clients, and since > > > it relies on headers, it can automatically fall back). > > > > On Apr 27, 8:09 am, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > why aren't apps gzipped by default? > > > > Ok, all source code is zipped, but if I want to download only one app > > > > (from SVN/Bazaar or from appliances) I have to download a big file. An > > > > example is examples.tar, that has 7,5MB - examples.tar.gz has only > > > > 810kB (less than 11% of the original size). > > > > > Some contries don't have super-high-speed Internet connections and I > > > > prefer my proccess working on compression/uncompression than my > > > > network with full load for a long time. > > > > > -- > > > > Álvaro Justen > > > > Peta5 - Telecomunicações e Software Livre > > > > 21 3021-6001 / 9898-0141 > > > > http://www.peta5.com.br/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
