Maybe someone from Macromedia would be kind enough to comment on this?????
"Success is a journey, not a destination!!" Doug Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "junkMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:41 AM Subject: Re: UDF question > It's nice to hear someone else express this sentiment. (smile) > > Indeed, it doesn't make any sense. Multi-threaded applications are > ubiquitous. Thousands of programmers have written code to properly manage > access to shared memory resources. It's too bad none of them have worked for > Allaire/Macromedia. > > I suppose we should be generous and assume that some gnarly legacy issues > caused Allaire to go with the CFLOCK kludge. But I understand that Neo is a > complete rewrite of ColdFusion. If the locking issues are still present in > Neo, it's going to seriously shake my faith in the quality of Macromedia > software engineering. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howie Hamlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 8:21 AM > Subject: Re: UDF question > > > > Why CF doesn't protect threaded access to shared memory automatically, I'll > never know. It just doesn't make any sense. What if > > you're a hosting provider? Do you have to check all of your clients' code > for proper locks? As far as I know, CF is the only app > > server that has this quirk and I think that locking memoy is something that > should be handled behind the scenes. > > > > Maybe this limitation will be alleviated with NEO.... > > > > Howie > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
