>+1,000,000 for Jame's theory about string concatenation. CF is very >inefficient at this. Doesn't amtter much for small stuff and a few >repeats, but for bulk, a Java buffer is the way to go. > >Dave > >
String concatenation is quite slow in CF. This blog did some fairly simple tests and found that cfsavecontent was the fastest was to do string concatendation, see http://blog.fi.net.au/?p=279 I've run run similar tests using a more robust testing procedure and found similar results, (see http://www.aliaspooryorik.com/blog/index.cfm/e/posts.details/post/string-concatenation-performance-test-128) Basically cfsavecontent is on the average twice as fast as the java string buffer. What I'd suggest is do not write the file line by line but build up the string using cfsavecontent then write the string to disk. I think you'll find that that is about as fast as the PHP method, or nearly so. regards, larry -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons -- People need to realize that the plural of anecdote is not data. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338916 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
