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ColdFusion 8 - Adobe Keynote

June 27, 2007 · 3 Comments

&"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.
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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Ian // Jun 27, 2007 at 2:30 PM

    Will Ben test and tweak our code, too?

  • 2 jorge // Jun 28, 2007 at 10:25 AM

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

  • 3 Sean Corfield // Jun 29, 2007 at 11:14 AM

    @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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