I didn't mean to imply that there wasn't a dumb way to use cflock :D, just that its *proper* use is going to give good results and the reverse can *generally* be counted on to do the opposite. My point was that if you are going to use shared scope vars, lock 'em always.
-------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Another Locking Question On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 13:23 US/Pacific, Matt Robertson wrote: > I have yet > to see any instance where locking instituted any noticeable performance > penalty at any level. 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. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4