If you cache a lot of your pages like we do, then getting rid of the white space is a
big savings. This is particularly true if you have a lot of people accessing your
pages through modems via AOL etc. The saving on download time on a 33 Kbs modem is
substantial. We cut page sizes down from 40 K to 8K and that is after we used all the
proper coding techniques.
Lanny Udey
Hofstra University
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, March 15, 2001 >>>
Yes agreed, and the other thing that annoys me a little is that with Spectra
(which generates a lot of space, and overheads to any site) some developers
are very quick to incorporate the code to remove the white space etc. But
this throws so much extra processing that it would be better to leave the
whitespace alone.
And I agree that in a very heavy visited site, the less work the server has
to do the better of it is. Sure one could argue that you can just keep
throwing more $'s into the hardware, but why spend unnecessary money when
you don't have too. I mean we have a hard enough time convincing people to
purchase CF as it is without having to turn around and add to the cost's....
Just my $0.02 worth:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 March 2001 22:01
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: White space
> You raised some good points there, and I agree that it is all down to
> preference. However, text does travel faster than binary files. But if you
> are intent on removing the whitespace, bare in mind that you want to still
> be able to forsee the scalability of the code and the method used
> to create
> the backend.
>
> For example, with a system that is designed to be portable. Easy to
> maintain, and debug. You couldn't take all the methods listed, to achieve
> this sort of system. You can use these in parts, to help cut down but I
> don't think putting that much load onto the server really warrants a few
> extra k of text.
I'm personally of the opinion that if the server runs the templates faster,
then you can serve more users - if they have to wait a fraction of a second
longer, so what?
I'd rather serve 200 pages a second than 150 (or whatever the figures are)
Philip Arnold
Director
Certified ColdFusion Developer
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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