Would it help at all to create a ColdFusion custom tag and then call the CFX tag within it? Since CF custom tags have their own scope not shared with the general application, you shouldn't have to worry about all the VAR'ing of function variables? Anything created by the CFX tag (so long as its not set into REQUEST or APPLIACATION or something) should be destroyed at the end of the custom tag automatically.
I think this would eliminate all locking issues as well since it's a per-page load , non-shared scope. ....................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Cost of global CFC variables I'm looking at some debugging on the mailing list code and I'm noticing a few interesting things. It seems that one of the custom tags I'm using (CFX_ODSMime) is creating a LOT of variables. I'm using it within a function and have var-ed a few of them that I'm using but there are just so many of them. Here's the question. What is the cost of having a function write global variables a number of times, even if the variables are never used? Are there locking issues (I assume so)? Is it better to VAR all the variables even if you will never use 20+ of them? What are your thoughts and tests/results? I'll be doing a few myself to find out the answer but the feedback from others is always useful. Michael Dinowitz President: House of Fusion http://www.houseoffusion.com Publisher: Fusion Authority http://www.fusionauthority.com Adobe Community Expert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248792 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
