Showing posts with label CFMX 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CFMX 7. Show all posts

Tuesday 20 August 2013

CFML: evaluate(): CFMX7 and CF10 compared

G'day:
A few days ago I had a look at this - apparent - myth that evaluate() is terribly terribly slow and one should not use it on that basis alone (not forgetting there's no real justification to use it these days anyhow). I tested on ColdFusion 9 and 10 to gather my results (the final results posted were from CF10, but the two were much of a muchness). I speculated that given there was not really good-enough evidence to support these performance issue claims in modern versions of ColdFusion that perhaps the problem existed "back in the day" and it's since been remedied. So over the weekend I blew the dust off my CFMX7 install, and ran the tests again on a like-for-like config, alongside re-running the tests on CF10. And for the sake of completeness, here are the results (they should be read in conjunction with the original article, as I do not go into great detail as to what was being tested).