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I might hazard a guess as to why the Java engine appears to be
running faster than the C++ engine: the C++ engine has been a piece
of junk since it was released. I've no doubt that Allaire could get
a Java based engine to run faster than the current CF engine. If
they took the time to write a well optimized C++ engine, I suspect it
would be much, MUCH faster.
Compare the speed of something like PHP to CF. On a high level, PHP
is doing exactly what CF does : open a file, parse the language to
PCode, execute it, then return the results. That's what the Java
engine will do as well, parsing to Java bytecode in that case. Yet
even tho PHP & CF need to accomplish the same basic set of tasks, PHP
can do the same thing MUCH faster than CF.
The reason? PHP was written by coders who took pride in their work &
made the best server they possibly knew how. CF was written by
coders who may well have possessed the same if not superior abilities
but who were being driven by a marketing division that wanted the
product out yesterday. The result is a poorly written product that
even after 5-odd upgrades, service packs, or whatever Allaire chooses
to call them STILL has a huge number of functional flaws and serious
speed & efficiency issues.
My apologies to whoever originally said this (and I believe someone
on list either said it or uses it as his email sig, but...) "A
product is only late once, but it can suck forever." I wish that
Allaire would take those words to heart, as I'm getting tired of
working around their bugs AND my bugs to get a site working...
</CF_Rant_Rave_and_Vent...>
Okay... My apologies for the on-list core dump. Am I the only one
who's long past fed up w/ Allaire's business practices? Without a
doubt they have a great product which makes my job (on the whole)
easier. It's just that they seem to consistently rush things out the
door without sufficient testing. At this point, I feel like a beta
tester even when I'm opening a shrink wrapped final product. As it
is, I'm stuck using 4.0.1 because 4.5.x can't remain stable while
running my code; and Allaire's tech support hasn't got a clue why...
Very frustrating seeing as the same code runs on NT4 / CF4.0.1 with
complete perfection and only requires a server reboot once every two
months or so...
Best regards,
Zac Bedell
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Zachary S. Bedell,
Chief Technology Officer,
Adirondack Technologies, Inc.
Please include original message in any replies -- I get a
lot of email every day, and I have a REALLY bad memory...
So I don't always remember everything that was said.
Thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Best Practices
>
>
> > That's all great, and I am looking forward to these improvements.
> > However It's hard to believe that a Java engine will be
> faster than a C++
> engine.
> >
> > (The Java interpreter itself is written in C++. C++ is
> compiled directly
> to machine code. Think about it)
> >
>
> Well, at least in theory, the demonstration during the
> general assembly
> seems to prove that the Java-based engine is faster. Keep in
> mind that this
> is server side java which has had a great deal of
> optimization attention
> paid to it.
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