Hi all, To me, it's axiomatic that clarity and maintainability (and thus reliabaility) must be higher priorities than debatable performance tweaks. Show me a performance increase from from order(N-squared) to order(N-root-N) and I'm all ears. But when you want to use multiple <CFOUTPUTS> or replace CFIFs with IIFs, then I'll probably pass, thanks. Of course, there are times when you need to optimize all-the-way, like when your CustomTag gets called hundreds of times to build a single page. The CF4.5 debugging output gives very useful profile information about your tags and the amount of time they are consuming. Fantastic. Really, RAM and MHz are a lot cheaper than developer's hours. And let's not forget this is WEB development. Gaining milliseconds on a page will never be noticed. Optimize where appropriate. Oh, btw, back to the original post, whitespace-stripping tags do ADD a small but significant execution-time overhead that probably outweighs any advantage in download time. Sorry. Bye now, Lee Borkman Bjork.Net - ColdFusion Tags by Bjork -----Original Message----- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm interested in the performance aspects of <CFOUTPUT> as well.... What's better - a large block with 35 individual <CFOUTPUT> tags around 35 single elements, or the same block with just one <CFOUTPUT> at the head and the close..... For pages with a small number of <CFOUTPUT> tags, I've tended to use individual tags around various elements. However, if there's a ton of tags needed, I've tended to wrap the entire section in one <CFOUTPUT> tag instead. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebarRsts&bodyRsts/fusebox or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
