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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:14:27 -0800
From: Pierre Delisle <pierre.delisle@sun.com>
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To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: jsp - html speedup
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cga wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
>     I was thinking "There is a way to speed up jps". I mean if I take out
> white spaces and other unnecesary text out of the html part of a jsp, the
> server will send less bytes to the browser so it will be faster.
> 
>     I am pretending to do a Reader that takes out that unnecesary chars. I
> know Java, but few jakarta. So, the first time, when the server reads the
> jsp to make the code, it also takes out those unnecesary spaces (and
> comments).
> 
>     Is there something like this already done?

Not that I know of.

> 
>     If I do it, will someone help me to integrate?

I'm sure that someone in the community will be more than happy to help.
If you have a proposal with more specifics, you should also
get valuable feedback from other people.
 
>     By the way, it should be configurable. I mean, someone should use it
> only if he wants to. And if there is a bug the makes that a particular page
> not to be shown properly, to disable it for that page.

Makes sense.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Carlos Gaston Alvarez

Well, thanks to you for your interest in contributing to the source code!

    -- Pierre