You can usually create a workaround for anything. The work arounds however
are rarely any good performance wise and usually very difficult to debug and
hand over to another programmer.
-george
>From: Craig Dudley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Client versus Session...
>Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:45:53 +0100
>
>True, but that's effectively storing them as a string, and serializing /
>de-serializing it isn't exactly fast.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Funaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 02 May 2001 13:43
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: RE: Client versus Session...
>
>
>You actually *can* store complex variables in Client scope using WDDX.
>
>Just my little pipe-in for the day!
>
>Marc (WITH A "c"!)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Kaytor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:29 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: RE: Client versus Session...
>
>
>Couple of negatives with session variables : they barf in a clustered
>environment, hence your application is not scalable. They eat up memory, so
>an application with many users eats up all your ram impeding performance.
>
>Couple of negatives with client variables : They don't hold complex
>variables, (you can't store a query set in them ). By default they depend
>on
>cookies or you must pass the cfid and cftoken from page to page.
>
>I wouldn't say one is better then the other, I would say they serve
>different purposes....
>
>-george
>
> >From: "Kola Oyedeji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: Client versus Session...
> >Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:41:21 +0100
> >
> >I've often wondered about this, if you dont mind could you summarise why
> >clients vars are
> >better than session vars despite session vars bieng held in ram?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >KOla
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Erika L Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: 02 May 2001 06:07
> >To: CF-Community
> >Subject: Client versus Session...
> >
> >
> >Since there seems to be a few people still up and about, could you put
>your
> >thinking cap on for a sec.......
> >
> >Session versus Client. I've read through just about every post I could
>find
> >on the subject throughout CF-Talk. And the consensus is that client is
>the
> >way to go.
> >
> >So....
> >
> >I am about to convert a site that I have been having long-standing issues
> >with timing out, etc. Is it really as simple as turning all the
> >session.whatevers into client.whatevers and making sure clientmanagement
>is
> >turned on? (this is a hosted app and by default, they store client vars
>in
> >a
> >SQL database).
> >
> >Thanks for thinking so late....I'm going to bed soon I promise.....
> >
> >Erika
> >(with a *K*)
> >
> >"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
> >power, and magic in it." - Goethe
> >
>
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