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Charlie, I read your blog entry back in Jan and I couldn't help thinking
that you wrote that with me in mind after our conversation about testing
CFMX vs BD.net when I found that CFMX was faster using a specific piece of
test code that I wrote.

Gary.


On 8/8/06, Charlie Arehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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Fair point, Adam.

I agree entirely that micro-tweaks have to be carefully considered before
doing an overhaul. It's not clear, as you say, what the 10-fold difference
would really mean for a single switch on a single page (versus one
appearing
in a query loop, as the WebApper guys were noting).

Indeed, people have long tried to "prove" the value of a tweak by putting
it
in a simulated large loop. I've made the argument that that's a fallacy:
if
the code doesn't really exist in a large loop, then it's not at all the
same
to conclude that such a simulated large loop test would equate to the
performance improvement one would see if instead you ran a load test
requesting the page a large number of times (but executing the tweaked
only
once). It's a point of some contention, and I blogged about it back in
January:

http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/fallacy_of_loop_testing.htm


/charlie
http://www.carehart.org/blog/

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Subject: RE: [cfug-lists] RE: [CF-Dev] CFSwitch... Aren't all cases
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> Check that link I posted.

This one?
http://www.webapper.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fuseblog.showcomments&Artic
leID=20060727042244

That's the only link I can see on posts from you (looking @ the archive...
I
don't keep the email messages).

I don't see any metrics there.  They say "10-fold difference".  If the
ten-fold difference is the difference between 0.05ms and 0.5ms... *who
cares*?  We're not going to be talking about the difference between 100ms
and 1sec here.

It's an interesting theoretical exercise, certainly.  I'm yet to be
convinced it has any practical important at all though.

(needless to say, whilst sceptical, I'm not saying empirically "it doesn't
matter", I'm simply suggesting "it might not really matter, in the bigger
scheme of things").

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Adam

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