I'd be willing to bet perls HTTP request would complete faster (never tested it though) and thier RegEx implementation is hands down faster than CF's. That being said I still agree with Mike though no language is going to complete this much faster than 2 hours.
Back to the async Gateway idea if you shot off 7500 async calls I am guessing bad things could happen..if not on the CF server end of things Amazon may interpret that as an attack. When i made the price comparison for amazon at my previous employer I ran 100 products each hour through the day. However each item took up to 20 seconds b/c sometimes we would hit the server 10+ times per item (and sometimes amazon is slow to respond) b/c I wrote code that would navigate through the shopping cart to get the hidden prices :) Each hidden price took 3 hits, I think, so if 5 merchants had hidden prices for an item that would be 16 total hits for 1 item. Adam H On 7/6/05, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case Perl will only save you a few milliseconds per request if using > screen scraping and a good RegEx. No language is going to make the whole > thing take less than 2 hours from what your describing. > On the otherhand, the Amazon web service will probably save you a second per > request as its avoiding the UI and all. Problem is, there may be an issue of > gathering all of the prices from Amazon. You have to read their terms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:163065 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
