cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Todd Ashworth
I'm not sure .. anyone else have an opinion? Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: Kym Kovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 7:46 AM Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong? Hi Todd, If you use cfset in the Application.cfm file, the cfset gets

Re: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread GE
Hello, My *guess* as to how CF handles it is to use a flag to determine if it has been set already - if this flag is set don't bother checking and/or setting the variable again. The flags could be stored in a fast access location rather than a variable look up/variable verification in memory

Re: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Todd Ashworth
Hello, My *guess* as to how CF handles it is to use a flag to determine if it has been set already - if this flag is set don't bother checking and/or setting the variable again. Any idea which is faster? The flags could be stored in a fast access location rather than a variable look

Re: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread GE
Hello, Todd Ashworth wrote: Hello, My *guess* as to how CF handles it is to use a flag to determine if it has been set already - if this flag is set don't bother checking and/or setting the variable again. Any idea which is faster? Again my guess would that *if* an application has

RE: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Stephen Moretti
Todd, Any idea which is faster? CFSET is faster of course, but i think that you'll find that cfparam is faster than : cfif NOT Isdefined("scope.variablename") cfset scope.variablename = something /cfif The flags could be stored in a fast access location rather than a variable

Re: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Todd Ashworth
This whole thread is getting a little off the orginal question, which was, sort of, what's the best way set 'constant' variables, such as DSNs, company names, etc., when setting them in the Application.cfm file? Is it cfset or cfparam? Judging by the responses, I would assume that cfset is

RE: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Phil Arnold
I'm not sure .. anyone else have an opinion? Since it was fairly easy to do - I ran loads of timing tests on the difference between CFSet and CFParam. CFParam runs about 1.1-1.2 times slower than a CFSet - BUT as has been mentioned, using Application scoping speeds up the access loads - it's

Re: cfset vs. cfparam (Was - Re: What am I doing wrong?)

2000-07-04 Thread Stephen M. Aylor
Conferring w/ Justin and "Stolen" from Mike Dinowitz's HOF style guide: Code - There are a number of code issues that should be examined. Most of them have to be written up in separate articles due to the depth of information. Until these articles are out, here's the basics. Every app should