Option to compress templates

[jednano]

Can we get an option to compress the templates before they are stuffed into a string? This way, it gets rid of all the leading tabs/spaces leading up to the actual content. I realize some wouldn't want this feature, but I'm very interested in reducing our HTML footprint.

[jandillmann]

+1 for this. There should also be an option to remove HTML comments.

[dgeb]

Thanks to @timrwood, there's a new preprocess option which can be used to compress whitespace, remove html comments, etc. before templates are compiled.