> > And yes, what Dave Watts said is certainly true and > > important, but that does not mean that watching things > > like this is somehow NOT important. > > Well, actually, it does mean that, to some degree. (At least, that's my > argument - you're free to accept or reject it.) Again, in my experience, > I've never seen any significant difference in these small things, compared > to the differences in performance that can come from reexamining the > application architecture to remove work done unnecessarily at runtime, or
It also depends on the type of application you're writing. I deal mainly with back-end API's and procedures as opposed to heavy user traffic, so coding using the most efficient means possible is an absolute must. Some of the loops I deal with iterate tens of thousands of times and are run over a thousand times a day. Using cfscript as opposed to CFML for setting variables (even a few) can make several seconds of processing go away. Granted, on normal applications that do not experience much traffic (and even some that do) the differences of this type are probably not paramount. For NEW code, there is no reason NOT to optimize it as much as possible. > It's important to remember that there are no perfect applications, and any > time you spend on one thing is time that you could spend on another. Code Really? I thought I could go back and use the same time over again to do something else.. ;) > tweaks of this nature don't make a significant difference, and you can't > rely on their behavior in future versions (or previous versions for that > matter). Eh? I wasn't aware there was a chance Macromedia was going to rip cfscript out of ColdFusion, or make changes so that cfoutput couldn't loop over queries. Maybe you're talking about something else, but that comment makes no sense to me. -Justin Scott, Lead Developer Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. http://www.sceiron.com ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
