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

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