On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, jim ostlund wrote: > Interesting. I would assume that in many instances in which you suspect the > potential for race conditions, you still won't actually encounter race > conditions. So is there a downside to locking when no race conditions are > present?
Yes, you'll force you app (or session, or ...) to run single threaded through the lock. This will have a performance impact. > And to be clear, is the "best practices" approach to use named locks when > you suspect the potential for race conditions, as opposed to scope locks? > When do you need to lock the entire scope anymore? Wont a named lock single thread the whole application at that point, where as a session lock only single threads the current users request. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to confidentially optimize internet synergies On: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:271130 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
