On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Eric Nicholas Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also add - that this probably doesn't exactly fall into the > "Premature" category. The code is completed and it works. Now am I > wondering the different ways it could or should be improved upon...
"improved upon" is pretty broad. If you criteria is maintainability, you may refactor in a different direction to performance - sometimes they trade off against each other. So the question is: is it "fast enough"? If the answer is yes, performance is not an issue. If the answer is yes, profile it (and timing code to see where the bottlenecks are) and refactor for performance. If it is fast enough, the question is: can you maintain it? Do you find the suggested alternatives easier from a maintenance point of view or not? The fastest code is not always the easiest to maintain - and may vary between different versions of CF as well. That's why "premature optimization" is being bandied around as a concern here... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies US -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwoo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329741 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
