the webapper folks had an interesting blog post in the subject as well... http://www.webapper.net/index.cfm/2006/7/27/20060727042244
altho it seems that the issue they address was resolved in CF8. still, an interesting read :) On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the link to my post from back then. Figured I could do the > googling and save everyone else the trouble: > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:152825 > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >> > > > > -- > 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:306404 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
