I beta tested Spectra when it was first introduced, sure it is bloated and slow. But all it is, was a way to show us developers how we could enhance our own applications. The fact that it is totally written in CFML will always create a performance hit because of its design.
Hopefully when it goes into Nero as a standard library of tags and functions this will improve. But Spectra is also a very good way of showing what NOT to do with CFML. I have seen so many Spectra programmers who have so much code in there applications that I just have to ask why. The code that could do something simple has often been bloated out to pages of code, this I consider bad because why throw more code into the cfml than it needs to. Anyway just my rant for the day. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2001 7:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Session variables > > Good option, but the request scope is a memory killer - Spectra is based > > on it and can suffer really bad performance at times. > I actually disagree; I started using the request scope when it was > introduced. I have no problems with it; however I will say that you need > to be extremely careful when it comes to memory. I very much agree with Andrew. Making a blanket statement like "the request scope is a memory killer" simply isn't valid. Like any programming tool, the request scope can be used for good, or for evil. Copying everything and the kitchen sink into the request scope with each pagecall? Yeah, of course that's gonna suck down memory. The fact that Spectra uses the request scope and that Spectra performs slow at times in no way leads to the blanket conclusion that the request scope is a bad thing to use. Like any application, any technology, any tool, you have to know how to best use it. Abuse it, and it will not work the way it should. -Cameron -------------------- Cameron Childress elliptIQ Inc. p.770.460.1035.232 f.770.460.0963 -- http://www.neighborware.com America's Leading Community Network Software ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
