On 12/8/10 3:40 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote:
I think the point is that it makes bug reports that much easier to understand when they're reported by somebody who isn't in debug mode. This has to be traded off against the performance advantages of removing blank lines. Is there any data on how significant the performance improvements are?
You expect users to have the expertise to report a bug which includes a line number where the bug occurred, yet you don't expect they will be able to add debug=true to the URL when asked to do so? Also, the critical part of reporting a bug is rarely the only information needed to fix a problem.
Is there any data on how significant the number of or quality of bug reports will be impaired by this?
We would be the only web site I know of, certainly the only web site of similar size to choose to try and retain line-numbers in production output. I suspect that they are still functioning just fine.
- Trevor