[tbnl-devel] Re: New version 0.4.0

[Marc Battyani]

"Edi Weitz" <edi at agharta.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:23:42 -0500, Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca>
wrote:
>
> > Actually, I wanted to mention that library to *you* Edi. What do you
> > think about supporting gzip (and/or deflate) encoding? I was going
> > to add it to TBNL -- the application I am working on used to be in
> > Java and gzip encoding had an enormous (positive) impact on
> > performance. If somebody else is already doing this then I won't
> > worry about it.
>
> Hmm, since I've always used Apache/mod_lisp in front of TBNL I also
> used mod_gzip which works quite well.  I don't think that adding this
> to TBNL is a good idea because it'll complicate things and is already
> available in the backend.  What do others think?

I also think that trying to duplicate Apache is a waste of time. Having a
lightweight standalone front-end for demos or small apps is a good idea but
using it for real production applications seems a bad idea.

Marc