cflock is _not_ necessary for memory issues anymore. You still need it
for logical reasons. For example:

application.x = application.x + 1

Without locks, it's possible two threads could run the same code at
once. Instead of x being x+2, it would be x+1. 

=======================================================================
Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia

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"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UXB Internet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:25 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CF Wishlist
> 
> 
> To stay on topic, and most likely cause more trouble, I on 
> the other hand
> would like <cflock> to go away and not be necessary for 
> session, application
> or server variables.  It is my firm belief that variable 
> locking should be
> part of the core CF engine and not part of the higher level scripting
> language.  Especially since it appears to always be required. 
>  As much as I
> understand the reasons for it's current existence in a multi-threaded
> environment, <cflock> still has the appearance of being a 
> patch to a design
> flaw.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dennis Powers
> UXB Internet - A Web Design and Hosting Company
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CF Wishlist
> 
> Ok,
> 
> Have carefully considered what I want from CF, the most 
> striking feature I
> want to see is...
> 
> "Stop treating empty list items as null."  That is a list of 
> "3,5,,,3,2,2"
> should have a length of 7, instead of 5.  Doing this would 
> nearly eliminate
> the need for any field names like name="cost_#i#", since HTML 
> sends back
> "3,5,,,3,2,2" for duplicate text fields named "cost" anyways.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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