If you call a CFC more then once on the same request using the cfinvoke tag you could be instantiating it over and over, which is needless overhead. I suggest you make it a habit to always create an instance of the CFC using the cfobject tag before calling any of its methods.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:47 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Quick CFC questions > > I really like CFC's in CFMX and am almost done rewriting my site to use > CFC's to encapsulate the core functionality. I'm only using the basic > features of CFC's, for lack of experience or understanding of some of the > more advanced features (waiting for Ben's Book!). > > So, I'm just curious if what I'm doing is acceptable practice and if there > is some room for improvement (there always is). > > I essentially have a several action pages which use the <cfinvoke> syntax > to call approx. 6 cfc's in a sequence while performing a small amount of > processing inbetween. Each call used the <cfinvoke> tag. Within some of > the CFC's , I have calls to other CFC's. Is this "okay"? > > I have noticed that calling <cfinvoke> seems to be a bit slow. I wrapped > the contents of a CFC in a timer script and got 0-10 milliseconds > consistently. Wrapping the timer script around the same CFC, but > including the <cfinvoke> statement returned > between 30-70 milliseconds. Is that normal? > > Thanks for the input, I'm really looking forward to Forta's book and I'm > sure some great cf component details. > > Brook > > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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
