Any link to elaborate on this stuff? "Other engines, effectively convert to raw servlets and then run, which has some advantages, but also has some disadvantages. For example, in our tests, our technique of interpretation performs best at high scale, using significantly less memory."
2012/1/16 Alan Williamson (aw2.0 cloud experts) <[email protected]> > Good results here David. > > You have to be very careful when doing micro-benchmarking. It is very > easy to see a couple of results here and make completely incorrect > conclusions. In other words it can present a very artificial world. > > Now, the results here do not surprise me, i would expect the Java version > to outperform the CFML version by a large magnitude. This is because we do > not "compile" the CFML/CFC pages into Java byte code. This has been well > documented and discussed over the years. Other engines, effectively > convert to raw servlets and then run, which has some advantages, but also > has some disadvantages. For example, in our tests, our technique of > interpretation performs best at high scale, using significantly less memory. > > As for the Javascript side of things, we will look at resolving the last > remaining pieces (though i contend your choice of words "extremely buggy" > is somewhat misleading). The Rhino engine, which is what runs the > Javascript under the covers is something that is continually evolving from > the Mozilla team and will be updated in subsequent Java releases. > > Thanks for the input here. Great stuff. > > -- > aw2.0 ltd ::: http://about.me/aw2 > > > David Mulder wrote: > > Last week I spent half an hour comparing *coldfusion *vs *coldfusion > cfscript* vs* java cfscript* vs *javascript cfscript* and I was kind of > surprised by the result, so I thought I would share it (+I saw on another > thread some questions about cfscript javascript speed): > > - CFscript language=javascript is quite extremely buggy: issue #416 > and #417 > - CFscript is about the same speed as coldfusion > - *CFscript language=java is 100 (!!!) times as fast as coldfusion* in > calculating pi*.* > > Especially the third point I would love to hear *why *the difference is * > that* big. > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > > Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012 > -- -Nitish "Faith is a free Option" http://www.forcesofindia.com/profiles/np -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Join us @ http://www.OpenCFsummit.org/ Dallas, Feb 2012
