I believe there was a definite performance hit in WOF 3.51. WOF 4.x has been
optimized to not have the same problem when nesting components.
-dave
Marc Respass wrote:
> > Anyone have any experience with the performance price of reusable components?
> >
> > I'd love to use components in my project where it makes sense. The docs
> > seem to support taking this approach.
> >
> > Then when you read the tuning and deployment section, it talks about
> > reducing your components.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Components seems the way to make the project development time go very
> > quick.... I'm just worried about deployment.
>
> I can only tell you my experience. Running on my development system (NT 4
> workstation and SP3 using WebObjects' web server instead of IIS and
> accessing a Paradox database via ODBC (Paradox is similar to Access - no
> database server) and using nested reusable components, I do not notice any
> real difference. Obviously, the smaller the web page, the quicker the page
> loads but I don't feel like WO is slowing down as it builds the reusable
> components. I use a reusable navigation header that contains my own reusable
> ActiveImage component so every page has a reusable component inside a
> reusable component. Plus, my ActiveImage component appears about eight times
> in the header :o. The advantages of reusable components far outweigh the
> disadvantages.
>
> --Marc Respass
