On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 07:44 PM, Joe Eugene wrote: >> instead of atypical test cases like looping a million times. >> I think it's more than equal in its competitiveness with other web >> application servers. The fact is, most business apps aren't doing >> the sorts of calculations that you're testing >>
I think the point that Joe (and I) am trying to make is that while looping a million times is unrealistic, it does illustrate a problem -- the code is up to 80 times slower. Yes, you won't have any 1 - 1,000,000 loops in a typical cfm template, but you may have 100 concurrent users doing 1- 100 loops. So, every bit that you save on 1 user is multiplied 100 times (in this example). I think that Matt would agree that this can be a very important determination if an application, nay web site, scales well. Say for example, Victoria's Secret had a loop (or equivalent inefficient code) in their main cfm page -- when they do one of their "Angel" TV specials this (optimization) could make the difference whether the site could handle 100 concurrent hits or 10,000 -- or whether it reaches the point` where it is on the wrong side of the power curve and just eats itself up! Joe's point, and mine is that this is a factor that can contribute to the overall performance and scalability of a CF web site -- not the only factor, maybe not the most important factor, but an important factor, nonetheless! Geeze! I promised myself I wouldn't do this anymore! Dick ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
