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gZip #32

Open omgreenfield opened 9 years ago

omgreenfield commented 9 years ago

Thing for compressing files. Might already be done in Rails. Not sure.

robber333 commented 9 years ago

Why would we want to compress files?

To ask another way: smaller files load faster. But if you have to process them to make them useable this adds time. Is the net result a gain? Or are we compressing for other reasons than speed?

omgreenfield commented 9 years ago

I'm not completely sure, but from what I've heard on the podcast it is definitely a thing to do to make your webpage faster.

robber333 commented 9 years ago

Processing happens way faster than internet connection shit on 99% of machines so makes sense this would speed things up,