Well according to a quick (iterative) test on CF 8.0.1 evaluate seems to be about 5 times slower than the array notation. Of course, we're still talking about the difference between 1 ms and 5 ms's.
I think that is very good information to know and use, but frankly I would agree that readability should take precedence until you run into a page doing enough processing to actually matter. I think the whole witch-hunt mentality is a little obtuse. :) ~Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:33 AM Subject: Re: using dynamic variable in cfset statement > As someone who used to always pounce on folks for using evaluate, I > believe I remember reading recently a blog entry from an Adobian that > points out that evaluate is not nearly as slow as it used to be. > > Now when I recommend against Evaluate I do so on readability terms > rather than performance. For almost every use of evaluate I see in the > field, the code can be rewritten in a cleaner, easier to understand > manner. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:312356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
