That's an interesting trade-off: bandwidth (gzip better) vs. cost of unzipping (gzip worse). Good thing Tapestry does a good job of letting the client cache the assets!
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Kristian Marinkovic < kristian.marinko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for all your responses and references. > > What i want to activate is the SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS level that activates > whitespace removal and renaming (shortening) of variables and functions. my > webapp is getting used more by mobile clients (tablets, phonse) than > desktop clients. during testing and optimization i realized that the form > of the js - eg. whitespaces - has an impact on the execution performance. > gzip does a great job in shrinking the file sizes but unzipping on a mobile > client has a performance toll which is noticeable on app startup leaving > the user with the perception the app were slow. > > cheers, > Kris > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > That said, in a HTTP 2.0 world, there isn't such an advantage to > > aggregation, especially with Tapestry's asset URLs (e.g., the encoding of > > the content hash into the URL). > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Google Closure is best in a situation where *all* the JavaScript that > > will > > > be part of the page is known statically; it goes beyond other > minimizers > > in > > > that, if you follow certain rules, it can perform real optimizations, > > such > > > as dead-code analysis and function inlining. It can work with a couple > > of > > > stable libraries outside its domain, as long as you tell it about them, > > but > > > doesn't fit well with non-aggregated modules loading dynamically ... > that > > > defeats dead-code analysis, etc. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo < > > > thiag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:12:14 -0200, Massimo Lusetti < > mluse...@gmail.com > > > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> BTW as a side note I'm not completely sure all these minimization and > > >>> concatenation are a good thing. Let's think about this a little bit > > more. > > >>> > > >>> Some resources may help: > > >>> > > >>> http://rubyrogues.com/135-rr-http-2-0-with-ilya-grigorik/ > > >>> > > >> > > >> From Wikipedia: "HTTP 2.0 is the next planned version of the HTTP > > network > > >> protocol used by the World Wide Web.". That'll take some time until we > > can > > >> really assume most users are using it, maybe years. Regarding large > > files, > > >> I think that if you manage to make the browser cache the files and you > > >> don't change them much, that won't be a problem. Tapestry, with > stacks, > > >> let's you choose what JS and CSS files will be bundled together. And, > of > > >> course, JavaScript and CSS combination can be configured to be turned > > off. > > >> Regarding minimization, as long as the minimized version works in > > exactly > > >> the same way as the non-minimized version, and current minimizers do > > that, > > >> I can see no downside. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > > >> Tapestry, Java and Hibernate consultant and developer > > >> http://machina.com.br > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > > > > > Creator of Apache Tapestry > > > > > > The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > > > learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > > > > > > (971) 678-5210 > > > http://howardlewisship.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > > > Creator of Apache Tapestry > > > > The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > > learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > > > > (971) 678-5210 > > http://howardlewisship.com > > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com
