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June 27, 2007
&"The GR8 CF8!" - I'll keep updating this as Tim Buntel and Ben Forta continue to talk...

Top 8 reasons to buy ColdFusion 8:

  • Making apps is really easy, including Eclipse Plug-ins (including debugging) and Wizards, Server Monitor
  • Have confidence in production applications - Server Monitor & API, Multiple Instances, Stable & Backward Compatible
  • Your users will be happier - Flex and AJAX, Reporting, PDF Applications, On-demand presentations, Images
  • It's nice and secure - Multiple Admin accounts, Multiple configurable RDS accounts, Strong encryption
  • CFML Evolution - JavaScript operators, Argument collections, CFC interfaces, File handling functions, Array and Structure creation, CFC serialization
  • Plays well with others - .NET, Exchange Server, RSS & Atom, LiveCycle Data Services, Flash Media Serve (gateway etc)
  • It's fast! Really, really fast! - Overall server performance, CFCs, List functions, Logic functions, more...!
Tested 2.4m lines of customer application code. Identified bottlenecks and made hundreds of tweaks. Struct manipulation is twice as fast; List manipulation is three times faster; switch/case is three times faster; cfparam is FORTY times faster; date functions is five times faster; regex is 2.5-3 times faster; isDefined() is twice as fast (as in CFMX 7); CFC creation is THIRTY times faster.

BlogCFC and the adobe.com store run 30-40% faster with no other changes.

Comments

Will Ben test and tweak our code, too?


Those are excellent news. Is the improvement because the code has been rewritten or because it is using a newer JVM?


@Jorge, the CF team has done a massive amount of work on the code being generated (but moving from Java 1.4 to Java 6 also probably helps).


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