> He was asking for performance. And those technologies are mostly slow. > Write an ecommerce site in assembly.
He was also asking for a comparison to JSP and ASP etc, not assembly. Your initial answer was a poor generalization at best, though your comments below do reveal more about your viewpoint. -Cameron ----------------- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc. --- cell: 678-637-5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:07 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question > > > > Ummmmm, wow -- fast and slow at what? Development? Compilation? > Execution? > > Performance under load? Math calculations? etc etc? > > > > CFMX, JSP compile to java byte code and get executed by a JVM. > > PHP, ASP compiles to pseudocode and is run by a C++ interpreter. > > ASP.NET is compiled to .NET bytecode (that's not the right term > -- I'm not > a > > .NET guy, but it's equivalent) and is run by the CLR > > > > What's that mean for performance? Nada. Your code is the issue. At least > for > > the first 90% or so of performance -- then it comes down to server, OS, > > hardware, database, and application server tweaking. > > He was asking for performance. And those technologies are mostly slow. > Write an ecommerce site in assembly. It'll probably scream. But > it'll take > forever to write, and writing scalability features into it will be a major > undertaking. > > Are you disagreeing with the fact that they are slow? Because, heck, they > are. But that's the price that paid for quick(er) development time, > scalability, reliability, and convenience. And that's not a bad > thing. It > sure is a good thing. > > > > > > But, that's only half the story. There's a big difference between > > > _scalability_ and _performance_. JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly > > > scalable. So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request, when > you > > > have, say, 10000 users, it still takes 100ms. Other > technologies (cough > > > classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes. > > > > > > I had no clue I could scale to 10,000 users on the same hardware with no > > performance degredation in CFMX (or JSP or ASP.NET for that matter). Of > > course there's a difference -- but it's nowhere near that easy > or linear. > > No, it's not that simple. But some systems just will not scale, no matter > how much hardware or code optimization or whatever what factors you have > under your control you optimize. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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
