Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
- Original Message - 
From: Kwang Suh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question


 JSP: Slow
 CFMX: Slow
 PHP: Fast
 ASP: Very Slow
 ASP.NET: Slow

Um, wow -- fast and slow at what? Development? Compilation? Execution?
Performance under load? Math calculations? etc etc?

CFMX, JSP compile to java byte code and get executed by a JVM.
PHP, ASP compiles to pseudocode and is run by a C++ interpreter.
ASP.NET is compiled to .NET bytecode (that's not the right term -- I'm not a
.NET guy, but it's equivalent) and is run by the CLR

What's that mean for performance? Nada. Your code is the issue. At least for
the first 90% or so of performance -- then it comes down to server, OS,
hardware, database, and application server tweaking.

 But, that's only half the story.  There's a big difference between
 _scalability_ and _performance_.  JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly
 scalable.  So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request, when you
 have, say, 1 users, it still takes 100ms.  Other technologies (cough
 classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes.


I had no clue I could scale to 10,000 users on the same hardware with no
performance degredation in CFMX (or JSP or ASP.NET for that matter). Of
course there's a difference -- but it's nowhere near that easy or linear.


But back to the original question:

  I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's elegance and
  power for years. I am a manager in dev shop and the classic argument
  arises when CF comes up: can CF perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?
 

Yes. It's on par, depending on which test your try. Is it good at matrix
calculations? No. Is it good at running an ecommerce site? Yeah. It's on par
with other web application servers as far as performance.

Regards,

John Paul Ashenfelter
CTO/TransitionPoint




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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Kwang Suh
 Um, wow -- fast and slow at what? Development? Compilation? Execution?
 Performance under load? Math calculations? etc etc?

 CFMX, JSP compile to java byte code and get executed by a JVM.
 PHP, ASP compiles to pseudocode and is run by a C++ interpreter.
 ASP.NET is compiled to .NET bytecode (that's not the right term -- I'm not
a
 .NET guy, but it's equivalent) and is run by the CLR

 What's that mean for performance? Nada. Your code is the issue. At least
for
 the first 90% or so of performance -- then it comes down to server, OS,
 hardware, database, and application server tweaking.

He was asking for performance.  And those technologies are mostly slow.
Write an ecommerce site in assembly.  It'll probably scream.  But it'll take
forever to write, and writing scalability features into it will be a major
undertaking.

Are you disagreeing with the fact that they are slow?  Because, heck, they
are.  But that's the price that paid for quick(er) development time,
scalability, reliability, and convenience.  And that's not a bad thing.  It
sure is a good thing.


  But, that's only half the story.  There's a big difference between
  _scalability_ and _performance_.  JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly
  scalable.  So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request, when
you
  have, say, 1 users, it still takes 100ms.  Other technologies (cough
  classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes.


 I had no clue I could scale to 10,000 users on the same hardware with no
 performance degredation in CFMX (or JSP or ASP.NET for that matter). Of
 course there's a difference -- but it's nowhere near that easy or linear.

No, it's not that simple.  But some systems just will not scale, no matter
how much hardware or code optimization or whatever what factors you have
under your control you optimize.

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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Cameron Childress
 He was asking for performance.  And those technologies are mostly slow.
 Write an ecommerce site in assembly.

He was also asking for a comparison to JSP and ASP etc, not assembly.

Your initial answer was a poor generalization at best, though your comments
below do reveal more about your viewpoint.

-Cameron

-
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 -Original Message-
 From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:07 AM
 To: CF-Talk
 Subject: Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question


  Um, wow -- fast and slow at what? Development? Compilation?
 Execution?
  Performance under load? Math calculations? etc etc?
 
  CFMX, JSP compile to java byte code and get executed by a JVM.
  PHP, ASP compiles to pseudocode and is run by a C++ interpreter.
  ASP.NET is compiled to .NET bytecode (that's not the right term
 -- I'm not
 a
  .NET guy, but it's equivalent) and is run by the CLR
 
  What's that mean for performance? Nada. Your code is the issue. At least
 for
  the first 90% or so of performance -- then it comes down to server, OS,
  hardware, database, and application server tweaking.

 He was asking for performance.  And those technologies are mostly slow.
 Write an ecommerce site in assembly.  It'll probably scream.  But
 it'll take
 forever to write, and writing scalability features into it will be a major
 undertaking.

 Are you disagreeing with the fact that they are slow?  Because, heck, they
 are.  But that's the price that paid for quick(er) development time,
 scalability, reliability, and convenience.  And that's not a bad
 thing.  It
 sure is a good thing.

 
   But, that's only half the story.  There's a big difference between
   _scalability_ and _performance_.  JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly
   scalable.  So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request, when
 you
   have, say, 1 users, it still takes 100ms.  Other
 technologies (cough
   classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes.
 
 
  I had no clue I could scale to 10,000 users on the same hardware with no
  performance degredation in CFMX (or JSP or ASP.NET for that matter). Of
  course there's a difference -- but it's nowhere near that easy
 or linear.

 No, it's not that simple.  But some systems just will not scale, no matter
 how much hardware or code optimization or whatever what factors you have
 under your control you optimize.

 
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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Kwang Suh
There's still a lot of this that goes on:

Developer tries technology x by writing a page, or perhaps a mini-app.

Developer is disappointed that it's slow - perhaps they're getting 150ms
times even on simple pages.

Developer throws away tech x.

Developer tries tech y.  Same result.

Developer tries PHP.  Hey, it's fast!  So let's use that!

I'd rather have someone realize that, up front, many of the big players
offer products that can plonder along.  But for good reason.

- Original Message - 
From: Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question


  He was asking for performance.  And those technologies are mostly slow.
  Write an ecommerce site in assembly.

 He was also asking for a comparison to JSP and ASP etc, not assembly.

 Your initial answer was a poor generalization at best, though your
comments
 below do reveal more about your viewpoint.

 -Cameron

 -
 Cameron Childress
 Sumo Consulting Inc.
 ---
 cell:  678-637-5072
 aim:   cameroncf
 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  -Original Message-
  From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:07 AM
  To: CF-Talk
  Subject: Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question
 
 
   Um, wow -- fast and slow at what? Development? Compilation?
  Execution?
   Performance under load? Math calculations? etc etc?
  
   CFMX, JSP compile to java byte code and get executed by a JVM.
   PHP, ASP compiles to pseudocode and is run by a C++ interpreter.
   ASP.NET is compiled to .NET bytecode (that's not the right term
  -- I'm not
  a
   .NET guy, but it's equivalent) and is run by the CLR
  
   What's that mean for performance? Nada. Your code is the issue. At
least
  for
   the first 90% or so of performance -- then it comes down to server,
OS,
   hardware, database, and application server tweaking.
 
  He was asking for performance.  And those technologies are mostly slow.
  Write an ecommerce site in assembly.  It'll probably scream.  But
  it'll take
  forever to write, and writing scalability features into it will be a
major
  undertaking.
 
  Are you disagreeing with the fact that they are slow?  Because, heck,
they
  are.  But that's the price that paid for quick(er) development time,
  scalability, reliability, and convenience.  And that's not a bad
  thing.  It
  sure is a good thing.
 
  
But, that's only half the story.  There's a big difference between
_scalability_ and _performance_.  JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly
scalable.  So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request,
when
  you
have, say, 1 users, it still takes 100ms.  Other
  technologies (cough
classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes.
  
  
   I had no clue I could scale to 10,000 users on the same hardware with
no
   performance degredation in CFMX (or JSP or ASP.NET for that matter).
Of
   course there's a difference -- but it's nowhere near that easy
  or linear.
 
  No, it's not that simple.  But some systems just will not scale, no
matter
  how much hardware or code optimization or whatever what factors you have
  under your control you optimize.
 
 
 
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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Watts
 He was asking for performance. And those technologies are 
 mostly slow. Write an ecommerce site in assembly. It'll 
 probably scream. But it'll take forever to write, and 
 writing scalability features into it will be a major
 undertaking.

Unless you're also going to write all your other components (like the
database) in assembly, and you also happen to know how write assembly very
well, I doubt that the site would be noticeably faster at runtime.

Most of what makes dynamic sites slow, no matter what they're written in,
isn't due to any inherent slowness of the language. It doesn't really matter
in the vast majority of cases how fast CFMX can do math, for example, even
though it might be much slower than other languages (even JSP) at doing
math. There simply isn't usually enough of that stuff to make a difference,
in most business applications. If you are doing such things heavily in your
application, those sorts of things should be done in a different way, such
as within the database or using Java directly.

What makes a difference, when it comes to performance, is usually more along
the lines of how efficiently the database is used, and how well the
developers have implemented caching and other techniques which move work
from being done at runtime to being done before runtime. At least, that's
been my experience.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Watts
  Wherever there were perfomance issues they always related 
  back to bad coding or dodgy infrastructure.
 
 Not always true. CFHTTP, the dodgy locking in 4.0, CFFILE 
 all were tags that, even if you coded properly, liked to die.  
 Did I mention CFHTTP?

You neglected CFOBJECT/COM, which never worked all that well in CF (compared
to ASP, for example), and you really oversimplified the dodgy locking - CF
3 gave us memory variables but no way to lock them at all!

Good times, good times ...

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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Watts
 I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's 
 elegance and power for years. I am a manager in dev shop 
 and the classic argument arises when CF comes up: can CF 
 perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?

Yes, yes, yes, it can perform on par with all of the above. Whatever that
means. All of them are more than adequate for the vast majority of web
applications, although PHP seems to me to be a bit limited with regard to
external APIs, compared to J2EE and .NET. Then again, I'm no PHP expert.
 
 Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study 
 of some sort that lays it all out? My guess is that it will 
 be slower than Jsp since its in effect a layer on top of 
 java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm guessing its closer to 
 Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong here).

JSP and CFM files are treated almost identically - they're both compiled to
Java classes that conform to the Servlet API. So there's no difference in
that regard.

CFMX, due to its typeless variables, is less efficient with regard to
mathematical operations, I imagine, but that doesn't make much of a
difference in most applications. If it does make a difference in your
application, you'd probably be just as well served by writing Java classes
to handle those operations, and invoking them from CF, as by using JSP
instead of CFMX.

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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-20 Thread Kwang Suh
Ok, here are my final words to the original poster.

From a web application server perspective, performance is irrelevant.  Do
not look at performance as a major (or even minor) determining factor in
what to pick.

Instead, look at scalability.  Find out how scalable each of the
technologies are.  Find out what you need in terms of requirements for
scalability, and use that as a factor in matching your needs to a particular
technology.

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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Brunt
Rich this is a question that has been aired in various forms many times.  I can give 
you my experience having used CF seriously since version 1.54 and having worked for 
Allaire and MM as a field based Consultant (read Troubleshooter).  My view is very 
much from a CF angle.

From a coding standpoint in terms of getting an application coded well and out of the 
door nothing has ever bettered CF.  The advent of Fusebox also added the possibility 
of using a well distributed framework which we find is greatly in demand in the 
larger enterprise operations.  Fusebox is moving into other paradigms (PHP, ASP, JSP) 
etc but it much more evolved for CF.  In my time at Allaire and Macromedia I saw 
applications of all sizes.  Wherever there were perfomance issues they always related 
back to bad coding or dodgy infrastructure.  Once these items were corrected CF was 
always able to scream.  I had two large CF user clients paranoid that they had lost 
most of their site users because stability and system loads were suddenly amazingly 
better.  One of them was one of the worlds large Auto manufacturers and they had 
bloody busy sites.

So my point of view is that CF Sites coded well in a workable scalable and 
understandable framework cannot be beaten from a web application standpoint and this 
is historical.  

When you add to that the possibilities before us with the MX Family, all the rest 
really do pale IMHO.  

Kind Regards - Mike Brunt

Original Message ---
Hello all:
 
I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's elegance and
power for years. I am a manager in dev shop and the classic argument
arises when CF comes up: can CF perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?

 
Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study of some sort
that lays it all out? My guess is that it will be slower than Jsp since
its in effect a layer on top of java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm
guessing its closer to Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong
here).
 
I'd be glad to present to case for future technology decisions where I'm
at, but I don't feel like I have the ammunition. Anyone?
 
Thanks,
Rich


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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-19 Thread Kwang Suh
JSP: Slow
CFMX: Slow
PHP: Fast
ASP: Very Slow
ASP.NET: Slow

But, that's only half the story.  There's a big difference between
_scalability_ and _performance_.  JSP, CFMX, ASP.NET are all highly
scalable.  So, even though it takes 100ms for any single request, when you
have, say, 1 users, it still takes 100ms.  Other technologies (cough
classic ASP, PHP cough) fall flat and die at such high volumes.


- Original Message - 
From: Rich Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question


 Hello all:

 I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's elegance and
 power for years. I am a manager in dev shop and the classic argument
 arises when CF comes up: can CF perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?


 Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study of some sort
 that lays it all out? My guess is that it will be slower than Jsp since
 its in effect a layer on top of java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm
 guessing its closer to Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong
 here).

 I'd be glad to present to case for future technology decisions where I'm
 at, but I don't feel like I have the ammunition. Anyone?

 Thanks,
 Rich

 
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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-19 Thread Kwang Suh
 Wherever there were perfomance issues they always related back to bad
coding or dodgy infrastructure.

Not always true.  CFHTTP, the dodgy locking in 4.0, CFFILE all were tags
that, even if you coded properly, liked to die.  Did I mention CFHTTP?



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RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-19 Thread Rich Z
Thanks for the insight. This is really helpful. It's pretty amazing that
this stigma continues to dog CF to this day. It is still perceived as a
designer's platform. One colleague referred to it as sort of like
Front Page. Heh.

Thanks again,
Rich

-Original Message-
From: Mike Brunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:05 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

Rich this is a question that has been aired in various forms many times.
I can give you my experience having used CF seriously since version 1.54
and having worked for Allaire and MM as a field based Consultant (read
Troubleshooter).  My view is very much from a CF angle.

From a coding standpoint in terms of getting an application coded well
and out of the door nothing has ever bettered CF.  The advent of Fusebox
also added the possibility of using a well distributed framework which
we find is greatly in demand in the larger enterprise operations.
Fusebox is moving into other paradigms (PHP, ASP, JSP) etc but it much
more evolved for CF.  In my time at Allaire and Macromedia I saw
applications of all sizes.  Wherever there were perfomance issues they
always related back to bad coding or dodgy infrastructure.  Once these
items were corrected CF was always able to scream.  I had two large CF
user clients paranoid that they had lost most of their site users
because stability and system loads were suddenly amazingly better.  One
of them was one of the worlds large Auto manufacturers and they had
bloody busy sites.

So my point of view is that CF Sites coded well in a workable scalable
and understandable framework cannot be beaten from a web application
standpoint and this is historical.  

When you add to that the possibilities before us with the MX Family, all
the rest really do pale IMHO.  

Kind Regards - Mike Brunt

Original Message ---
Hello all:
 
I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's elegance and
power for years. I am a manager in dev shop and the classic argument
arises when CF comes up: can CF perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?

 
Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study of some sort
that lays it all out? My guess is that it will be slower than Jsp since
its in effect a layer on top of java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm
guessing its closer to Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong
here).
 
I'd be glad to present to case for future technology decisions where I'm
at, but I don't feel like I have the ammunition. Anyone?
 
Thanks,
Rich



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Re: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

2003-06-19 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
ouch!

- Original Message - 
From: Rich Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:25 PM
Subject: RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question


 Thanks for the insight. This is really helpful. It's pretty amazing that
 this stigma continues to dog CF to this day. It is still perceived as a
 designer's platform. One colleague referred to it as sort of like
 Front Page. Heh.

 Thanks again,
 Rich

 -Original Message-
 From: Mike Brunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:05 PM
 To: CF-Talk
 Subject: RE: Good Ol' Cold Fusion Performance Question

 Rich this is a question that has been aired in various forms many times.
 I can give you my experience having used CF seriously since version 1.54
 and having worked for Allaire and MM as a field based Consultant (read
 Troubleshooter).  My view is very much from a CF angle.

 From a coding standpoint in terms of getting an application coded well
 and out of the door nothing has ever bettered CF.  The advent of Fusebox
 also added the possibility of using a well distributed framework which
 we find is greatly in demand in the larger enterprise operations.
 Fusebox is moving into other paradigms (PHP, ASP, JSP) etc but it much
 more evolved for CF.  In my time at Allaire and Macromedia I saw
 applications of all sizes.  Wherever there were perfomance issues they
 always related back to bad coding or dodgy infrastructure.  Once these
 items were corrected CF was always able to scream.  I had two large CF
 user clients paranoid that they had lost most of their site users
 because stability and system loads were suddenly amazingly better.  One
 of them was one of the worlds large Auto manufacturers and they had
 bloody busy sites.

 So my point of view is that CF Sites coded well in a workable scalable
 and understandable framework cannot be beaten from a web application
 standpoint and this is historical.

 When you add to that the possibilities before us with the MX Family, all
 the rest really do pale IMHO.

 Kind Regards - Mike Brunt

 Original Message ---
 Hello all:

 I'm new to this list but have always been a fan of CF's elegance and
 power for years. I am a manager in dev shop and the classic argument
 arises when CF comes up: can CF perform on par with jsp? Php? Asp? .net?


 Is there anything out there in terms of a comparative study of some sort
 that lays it all out? My guess is that it will be slower than Jsp since
 its in effect a layer on top of java (so is JSP I suppose, but I'm
 guessing its closer to Java than CF is, someone correct me if I'm wrong
 here).

 I'd be glad to present to case for future technology decisions where I'm
 at, but I don't feel like I have the ammunition. Anyone?

 Thanks,
 Rich



 
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