On 10/3/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:52 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > > > one nice trick you can easily implement is to compress your code before > > pushing it to production. > > the php cli exposes a method for stripping out the whitespace and > comments. > > > > php -w > > Do it right, use a compile cache like Eaccelerator or APC. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > ........................................................... > SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com > > Leveraging the buying power of the masses! > ........................................................... > of course i use the caching engines as well, but for people who dont want to use a caching engine or arent allowed to, i think this is a great strategy. especially since php facilitates it out of the box. another benefit is less disk space on the production system for the code. and even when using a compile cache, the first time the script is interpreted it will take less time to read in the source (oh i guess were getting into milliseconds again [heh]). -nathan
