[dev] Potential addition/learning for horde-js-compress.php
Chuck Hagenbuch
chuck at horde.org
Tue Apr 24 12:36:06 UTC 2007
Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> Added the PHP class as an option for compression. However, using an
> algorithim that simply shrinks the current code via name
> substitutions/whitespace cleaning, the PHP class is not as good as our
> current method - with the subtracted benefit that the rhino parser
> also does JS syntax checking during compression. The more advanced
> compression methods in the packer class require regex substitutions
> every time the javascript code is loaded, which is a performance hit
> that isn't necessary (a JS shrunk file coupled with gzip compression
> on the server should provide more than adequate compression for our
> purposes).
Cool, thanks for the analysis and adding it as a potential fallback.
-chuck
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