> It's really interesting - to me - to see such attention > to such 'small' language details in terms of performance. > ColdFusion is the only language I've ever worked in where > such small details made such big difference in speed... > and now it seems it is only historical (which is code: > CFML now behaves more like other languages).
In my experience, which may run contrary to others', these small language details didn't generally make much difference in CF 5 or previous versions, actually. For some reason, though, CF programmers have tended to focus on them to a degree way out of proportion to their actual impact on the average web application. I'm not sure why this is; I think it might have to do with the degree of ambiguity and looseness in CFML. I've worked with quite a few CF applications, though, and I haven't yet encountered a situation where these sorts of things were the performance bottlenecks within the application. So, when I see these sorts of things, they bring to mind debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Meanwhile, I've seen far too many CF developers neglect the very foundations of adequate web application performance - caching, database optimization, server tuning, and did I mention caching? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
