Re: [Reactor for CF] duckies has been merged

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On Sep 25, 2006, at 15:24, Doug Hughes wrote:  FYI, Most people had success with the duckies branch.  So, to avoid fragmentation of the codebase I merged duckies into the trunk today.  ... Thoughts?  Opinions?  Rants?  Flames? Doug, all, I'm not yet cmpletely convinced that "the duckies branch" is a good idea, although I fully agree with the point of view that speeding up a framework is more than just "nice". Let me summarize my thoughts (note that I haven't looked at the code at this point - my bad): * type checking is important in the development process: it helps us, programmers, avoid writing errors in our code. I'll admit that I have a strong 'structured programming language' background (Pascal et.al.) and to me type checking is far from "wirthless" ;-) * are you sure that the type checking is a time consuming part of the framework? The conflicting results mentioned in some of the mails on this list  should make us reflect on what exactly is being doen and measured... After all, type checking in CF (6.x and 7.x) is ultimately done in Java, and if I'm not mistaken this is one of those parts of the JVM that is highly optimized. On a hunch, I'ld say that more speed can be gained by your idea of caching queries (not query results: leave that to the DBMS) than by shedding type checking, especially in a somewhat larger program that runs over long periods - but I'll admit that my hunches usually aren't very reliable, so I'll wait for the measurements to come in! Don't get me wrong; I'm not anti-duckies, but I have the impression things are going a bit too fast here. So prove me wrong please! Wouter -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List reactor@doughughes.net Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --