[Haskell-cafe] Web application interface

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Jan 23, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> What I meant is, if you use a sendfile system call to send raw files  
> from the disk, how does this interact with gzip compression, which  
> clearly cannot be used when using a sendfile call? I ask because you  
> implied there were significant performance gains from using sendfile.

At present there is no mechanism to use sendfile+gzip. The only  
solution would be to gzip the file in a cache of some sort, and the  
use sendfile on that. That is just a limitation of the way sendfile  
works. We do not have anything like that built-in yet.. but you could  
add in a 3rd party library...

- jeremy