That was a rumor a few years ago, because switch frequently performs better in lower-level languages because of reduced expression evaluation. I did some testing and found that the opposite is true in CF: CFIF performs better than CFSWITCH. Not all conditionals can use CFSWITCH, of course, but for the ones that can use both. It was a while go, probably on CF 6.1.
That being said, if you care about the performance difference between the two (it fractions of a milliseconds), then using CF is the wrong choice, because CF is optimized for developer productivity over raw performance. If you care about shaving a millisecond or two off your request times, optimize your DB, add caching, check for any "silly" algorithms (query w/in a loop where a JOIN would work, etc.). Then tune your JVM. Then buy more hardware. Then switch from CF to a lower-level language. Then, and only then, can you switch from if statements to switch statements. cheers, barneyb On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Mike Francisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alot docs I've read says that cfswitch performs better than cfif. Does > anyone know in what way? How would it be better if both tags are processed > by the CF server engine anyway. I wanted to justify if it is worth the > effort of rewriting some of my code to improve the performance of my app > that uses cfif quite extensively. A better understanding would surely help > me decide. Thanks in advance. > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306400 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
