thanks dominic, I ran your code and the results between setting variable blocks with cfscript or using cfset varied from trial to trial. Some times cfscript was faster, other times cfset.
Anyhow in a nutshell it confirms my initial idea, that it isn't really a major issue. In the end it depends on personal style, readability and other user factors as to which is preferred when setting large blocks of variables.. regards, larry >I ran your code a few times on my machine (XP Pro) and got varying >results; sometimes the cfscript was faster, sometimes cfset. Try this >code out instead, it performs a single test on both cfscript and cfset >for each iteration and records a tally of the time taken for each - >this spreads the test and reduces variance due to the varying state of >the computers processor, etc. So far I always have cfscript as >slightly faster: > ><cfset iterations = 1000000/> ><cfset scriptTotal = 0> ><cfset cfsetTotal = 0> ><cfset scriptResult = 0 /> ><cfset cfsetResult = 0 /> > ><cfloop from="1" to="#iterations#" index="i"> > <cfset tick = getTickCount()> > <cfset cfsetResult = cfsetResult + i /> > <cfset cfsetTotal = cfsetTotal + (getTickCount() - tick)> > > <cfscript> > tick = getTickCount(); > scriptResult = scriptResult + i; > scriptTotal = scriptTotal + (getTickCount() - tick); > </cfscript> ></cfloop> > ><fieldset> > <legend>CFSCRIPT</legend> > <p><cfoutput>#scriptResult#</cfoutput><br/> > <cfoutput>Execution Time: #scriptTotal#ms</cfoutput></p> ></fieldset> > ><fieldset> > <legend>CFSET</legend> > <p><cfoutput>#cfsetResult#</cfoutput><br/> > <cfoutput>Execution Time: #cfsetTotal#ms</cfoutput></p> ></fieldset> > >Dominic >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
