Performance wise this has been bashed around SOOOOO much. The last bashing revealed little or no benefit to constantly opening and closing CFOUTPUT. Personally I like to wrap the page in CFOUTPUT and be done with it. If I ever had a huge page with mostly static drivel then I might make an exception (but so far it's mostly forms and data).
My 2 cents CDN or two bits of dryer lint US ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Many or Minimal CFOUTPUTS > Well you will get several opinions on what to do in this case. Since I find > myself breaking my apps into small pieces and including snippets, I find the > use of several better then a few. This is usually due to nesting problems > with the output. another reason, is I do not like putting outputs around a > bunch of HTML code as it makes things harder to understand. Performance wise, > I am not sure if there is good or bad reasons not to do it one way or the > other. > > > > > Douglas Brown > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Giesenhagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:20 AM > Subject: Many or Minimal CFOUTPUTS > > > > This is very minimal I am sure, but curious, is it better to have many > cfoutputs on a page as opposed to 1-2 cfoutputs that encompass lots of code. > > > > I guess the question would be is it harder for CF to open and close > cfoutputs or read through HTML code and other bits of information to find the > outputs. > > > > I know that it probably makes little difference if much at all, but what do > you find yourselves doing? > > > > Paul Giesenhagen > > QuillDesign > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.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
