Hi Peter It's not really a first cut. It's an existing application (CF5/FB3) that is being rewritten to take advantage of new features in MX as well as to streamline the code which had, lets say, "evolved". Good thing is that the requirements are pretty well nailed. The reason I was asking questions which really had an optimisation bias, as you pointed out, is that we know the application has concentrated heavy usage periods. (It's a voting/ranking application, so although it sits doing nothing other than serving reports most of the time, when a voting round gets announced it gets hit pretty heavily over a short concentrated period)
Thanks again for all the v. detailed advice -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Bell Sent: 25 June 2006 18:39 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] Instances and persisted data Hi Richard, Because it's easier! There is no right or wrong answer to this in the general case. What is more valuable - a simpler application or one that is slightly more efficient? Creating a single object per request isn't a big overhead for most applications (although checking a remote db for the data can get ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
