Don, On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Don L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Per Mark Mandel's following piece, > http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=270 > > Your thoughts/experience? Unfortunately, the answer is the usual: "it depends." Certainly, it depends on your application(s). And to some extent, it may depend on who you talk to. The issues Mark refers to are easily seen if you're using a lot of framework stuff, and in particular, with Transfer. There's a lot of class loading going on, and that can kill the performance. I ran into the issue in deploying a client site, and we went through two hosting services before Mark and Sean Corfleld blogged about this problem, and we realized it wasn't the host's fault. There was a fair amount of discussion about the problem on the Transfer list. On the other hand, many people (including, of course, Adobe), say that it's the combination of CF8 and Java 1.6 that provides the huge performance gains shown in Adobe's benchmarking for CF8. So evidently, in most CF non-framework-driven applications, the issue is overcome by other performance gains. When I ran into the problem, I discussed it with a contact I have at CrystalTech, and they actually discussed the issue with Adobe. As Mark suggests, both Adobe and Sun are aware of the problem. Sun just hasn't fixed the bug yet. But CrystalTech (and other hosting services I've talked to) are not willing to downgrade the Java version because it will hurt performance for many/most of their customers. In my case, I moved to a VPS where I was free to change the Java version, and it made a gigantic difference. Of course, the VPS made a difference in a lot of other ways. So how much of a problem the Java bug is -- or whether it's a problem for you at all -- depends very much on your situation. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:300104 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
