[SMARTY-DEV] Compressessed Smarty class

>Please share if you compressed it at RUN time, EACH time, >or compressed it and saved it back to the file system. Well "compressed" sort of... this is the code in all its complexity: <?php // stripsmarty.php $result = php_strip_whitespace('Smarty.class.php'); echo $result; ?> then I simply ran PHP5: php stripsmarty.php >Smarty.stripped.php and ran the tests using the two files. I did not test Smarty.compiler.class as it is mainly necessary in the development phases. To answer your question: (c) compressed the file and saved to the system. I do not believe that anybody running an opcode cache will get any benefit from the 'compression' but those without one just might... one has to remember, though, that this is a minor improvement and only speeds up the parsing/compilation phase. Hmm... some time ago I wrote a small obfuscator that did a decent job making the class/function variables a lot shorter and it is a known fact that this will speed the parsing phase as well. If I can find the obfuscator (hope I have not obfuscated the class itself during the testing phase) I will re-run the tests. I came across this method when phpdoc-commenting a class and seeing the file grow horribly. Markku