rails/rails — comment on commit 39081f166023092041605144c87d7a6cd3b65102
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By fxn:

Background: In the case of assets I remember talking with Josh about it (I wrote the compression in sprockets). It was decided to generate the gzipped files with no way to opt-out (I don't know if it is still the case) because it was fast and if you do not have the web server configured the .gz files are just ignored. If users come in hordes needing a flag one could be added :).

Not saying page caching should do the same, just giving context re assets.