> I think that the removal of innate dependencies usually outweighs the > potential for performance degradation - you'd need a lot of variables > going > back and forth to have a measurable difference, in my experience. If > performance is your only concern, the fact that you're using custom tags > at > all is going to make much more of a difference than how you're passing > data > to those custom tags, in CF prior to MX, but of course I don't have to > tell > you that, do I? > Nope, I think I have succeeded in making people aware of my position on custom tags prior to CFMX.
> In any case, so as not to muddy the waters too much, the original question > was specifically about whether there's a performance difference between > storing data in local variables and Request variables. There isn't any > difference, and following your line of reasoning, the original poster > would > be potentially better off switching to the Request scope for these > variables. > I wouldn't say there isn't any difference. I would say some in some cases there may well be a significant difference, but in most cases it wouldn't matter. Imagine a template that read a 1GB XML file and then passed it to a custom tag for processing. -Matt ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
