Glad to learn it ;! Thanks, Johan. > I will try to answer it then ;) > > i don't think it will affect performance that much but it will increase > memory consumption a bit > and then on both sides with that i mean the static heap (because your html > size is bigger in the markup cache) > and the garbage created because the wicket id's can be used to generate urls > See Component.getPath() implementation for that. > > So in the end you create a little more garbage (the response buffer) and the > html pages to the client can be bigger > and uglier. > > But to say that that would be a thing you can really measure.. I dont think > so. > (or you must have very big id's everywhere that the page is almost twice the > size :)) > > but that is only the rendering/response part. The request part when a > repsonse comes in we need > to walk the component path > > verylongverylongverylongverylong1:verylongverylongverylongverylongverylong2:verylongverylongverylongverylongverylong3:verylongverylongverylong4 > > so first we have to split that then compare it with a component. String > compare is also pretty quick because it runs ofcourse only over the shortest > string > and if the first char is already different it already know what it can > return.. Only a hit (or near hit) has to walk over the completely string > > But that is the penalty you get of long id's also again i dont think you > will notice it. if your wicket id's are 5 or 15 chars. That is just still > nothing.. > > But we do have a url compressor build in in wicket: > > wicket.protocol.http.request.urlcompressing.URLCompressor > and > wicket.protocol.http.request.urlcompressing.WebURLCompressingTargetResolverStrategy > > By using those we don't generate the full path for urls. We only map the > component to a uid. > and when the request comes in we don't have to parse and walk the full > component path because we just lookup the component directly for that uid. > > But ofcourse this does cost some additional memory for registering that > stuff.. > > johan
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