while you're doing scalability testing for the world, i'd be interested to
know how quick is duplicating some app variables to the request scope and
accessing them from there?
'course we need to test this stuff with silkperformer or something like
that to really know what this stuff will cost/save us.
At 11:17 AM 2/15/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Not to muddy the dark waters, but if you do some tests on cfloop vs.
>cfoutput, you might be rather surprised. I was...
>
>Here's a few more for you:
>1. boolean setting and checking "yes" and "no" are faster than 1 and 0
>2. tens of thousands of lines of cfcomments really don't make a lick of
>difference
>3. sometimes client variables are faster than session variables (shhh -
>don't tell)
>4. application variables are slow as nuts (locked or not)
>5. all this doesn't matter one lick if your hourly wage to implement all
>these ends up being more than the cost of another server
>
>NAT
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DRE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:37 AM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: Re: That performance issue again
> >
> >
> > Hi, This a subfuse to a coldfusion fuse curiosity of mine.(oh
> > stop me now).
> >
> > Now I know that cfoutput goes faster than cfloop and I've read that I
> > should use that case compare function(or whatever its called) to
> > see if two
> > strings are equal and that saying cfif len(string) is faster than saying
> > cfif string eq ''.
> >
> > Theres lots more like this. I could go on.
> >
> > So the question arises, does anyone know of any published actual speed
> > comparisons that are based on numbers instead of rules of thumb?? I'm
> > really quite curious about the ones I know about and the ones I
> > don't know
> > about.
> >
> > DRE
> >
> > At 03:04 PM 2/14/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Actually cfswitch performs much faster than cfif/elseif if there is more
> > >than a one elseif/cfcase
> > >
> > >1 cfcase vs 1 cfif (no cfelseif's) will perform with the same speed, so
> > >if you only had 1 fuseaction, it wouldn't matter whether you used
> > >cfswitch or cfif.
> > >
> > >Although if you live the real world this isn't the case.
> > >
> > >cfswitch performs with the basically the same speed regardless of how
> > >many cfcase statements you have, where as cfelseif has a linear speed
> > >increase for each new cfelseif statement.
> > >
> > >I did this test comparison a long time ago when CF 4.0 was released.
> > >
> > >Steve Nelson
> > >
> > >Greg Luce wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was under the impression that <cfswitch> performed BETTER than
> > > > <cfif><cfelse></cfif>.
> > > >
> > > > > Anyone worked up documentation on the fusebox performance
> > trade-offs? I
> > > > know
> > > > > that using custom tags and cfswitch are slower than cfinclue &
> > > > > cfif/esleif/else, but the general argument was that for the
> > most part it
> > > > > wasn't noticeable.
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone has docs or opinions, let me know.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, if anyone has a tip on increasing performance (in regards to
> > > > fusebox,
> > > > > general CF performance Allaire has well documented), please
> > pass that on,
> > > > > too!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Shannon Hicks
> > > > > Senior Developer
> > > > > Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> > > > > Brainbench Certified ColdFusion Developer
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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