[thelist] Looking for a simple CF-based catalog/shopping cart

Raymond Camden jedimaster at macromedia.com
Mon Dec 10 16:05:31 CST 2001


> 	-- thorough test.. it looks flawed though.. you're 
> using CFPARAM in the
> Customtag/CFModule instances but not the cfincludes... CFPARAM is VERY
> slow...  That's probably what killed your results.. I'll do 
> the test again
> w/o cfparam OR by using cfscript alternatives to CFPARAM 
> which are much
> faster.  Did you toggle template cache size and/or trusted 
> cache?  Those
> settings might affect your results as well and should 
> obviously both be "on"
> in production settings.
> 

While that is true, I still don't think its healthy to worry about
things like this. Yes, there are times when you need to squeeze every
bit of speed possible out of a web application, but certainly you are
not doing anything wrong by using CFPARAM. There comes a point of
diminishing returns when you speed too much time tweaking code for
speed. A vast majority of the web applications I've worked on have not
needed to be 'super tweaked' for speed like this, and I've worked on
some high traffic sites. 

Plus, bare in mind, ALL of the stuff you know about speed is going to
change anyway once Neo is released. 

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