I just consider Evaluate to be sloppy coding. It is (almost) never needed as it basically tells coldfusion to do something it already is doing: "look at this and see if its a variable". It is by no means the worst thing in the world but to the extent that you can cut it out of your code, I think you do yourself a favor by coding more cleanly (and increasing execution efficiency even if only a little).
Judah On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well according to a quick (iterative) test on CF 8.0.1 evaluate seems to be > about 5 times slower than the array notation. > Of course, we're still talking about the difference between 1 ms and 5 > ms's. > > I think that is very good information to know and use, but frankly I would > agree that readability should take precedence until you run into a page > doing enough processing to actually matter. > I think the whole witch-hunt mentality is a little obtuse. :) > > ~Brad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:33 AM > Subject: Re: using dynamic variable in cfset statement > > > > As someone who used to always pounce on folks for using evaluate, I > > believe I remember reading recently a blog entry from an Adobian that > > points out that evaluate is not nearly as slow as it used to be. > > > > Now when I recommend against Evaluate I do so on readability terms > > rather than performance. For almost every use of evaluate I see in the > > field, the code can be rewritten in a cleaner, easier to understand > > manner. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
