On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:12 +0000, Richard Heyes wrote: > Hi, > > Can I get input on the following: > > Uncompressed library: 15k > Compressed library, but using the PHP engine (ie ob_start()): 3.5k > > Which would be better? Obviously from the client perspective > compressed would be better, but from the servers perspective...? An > increase in the amount of time to put the file on the pipe, or an > increase (no matter how small) in load because of the PHP engine and > compression. Better to use compression. It frees up the webserver process faster to handle other connections. The longer you have a request being served the longer the resources allocated to serve the request are unavailable to other requests. So what benefits the client, small download size, also benefits the server. Also, if possible, use web server compression (mod_gzip or mod_deflate) instead of PHP compression. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
