On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 14:20 US/Pacific, Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Sean A Corfield wrote: >> If you lock within Application.cfm, you will single-thread your >> application and it will not scale. For low-traffic applications, that >> may be fine. > I think that is a bit of an oversimplification. Maybe it is a good idea > to distinguish between readonly and exclusive locks and between > different scopes.
True. My bad. I was in a hurry. cflock type="exclusive" on every request will single-thread your application. cflock type="readonly" will not. However, to avoid race conditions, you may still need to use exclusive locks - you just have to be careful about it (Marcello's great tip on this is in my blog entry). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
