ideally this would be an extension to readfile, add a USE_GZIP optional flags parameter to the readfile() request... On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Rene Veerman < rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi.. > > First off, i love PHP. Many thanks for keeping it free too. > > However, i've noticed that gzipping the 1Mb of javascript that my > seductiveapps.com needs, takes a relatively long time (measured over a > total page load time which i'd like to bring down from it's current 10 > seconds, about a second or even more is spent gzipping (by a core i5 > machine)).. > > At one time, i spent time building PHP code that cached the > already-gzipped content and outputted that with just readfile().. But i > never got it to work a second time, unfortunately.. > > Could you pretty please add this to the core of PHP? Shouldn't be that > hard for the internals team right?.. > > Many thanks in advance for even considering to do this.. > > with regards, > Rene Veerman, > CEO + CTO of seductiveapps.com > >