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ModelGlue: Reload and Mode make a huge difference

July 18, 2006 ·

I just thought I would post this as some people asked me about OO frameworks and their performance speed. I have been developing a little model glue content management system for a certain CF IDE site who shall remain nameless and during the course of development I was thinking to my self "boy, this is slow, I know I am in development mode, but hell its not a hot rod". So I started having doubts about the performace and was getting worried. I thought I would remove the ModelGlue debugging and that made some difference, I turned off ColdFusion debugging and that made a bigger difference. I changed the reactor config from <property name="mode"><value>development</value></property> to <property name="mode"><value>production</value></property> And it was still not exactly screaming along. Then I realised I had forgotten (hey, its REALLY hot and humid here in London today, brain is fried) the <property name="reload"><value>true</value></property> property in the model glue config! I know, I know... easy mistake to do, but when I turned it to "false", guess what? Bovine excrement zooming off a shovel. Just remember this when you are going into production kids, or if you are starting to do some comparisons with other frameworks... otherwise it just aint fair calling frameworks slow.
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4 responses

  • 1 Brendan // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    Yep, makes a big difference, also moving to Unity helped alot. Need to make sure you reload (pass in &amp;init=true or whatever you use) when you do any changes though as it drives you crazy wondering why things arent changing :-)

    have you seen Jason Sheedy's post with regard to a model glue cms,

    http://jmpj.net/jason/index.cfm?mode=entry&amp;entry=B64A4532-CF1D-76B8-AAF3FBB975A470E7

  • 2 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    This post was a kind of aide memoir as I was getting annoyed... but anyway, another tip is that if you are in CFEclipse, make sure you check wich Coldspring.xml file you are editing ;) I kept on changing one app's CS.xml file but checking the results in another file.

  • 3 Jacob Munson // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    &quot;Bovine excrement zooming off a shovel.&quot;

    That's not fair, Mark. You made me laugh out loud at work! ;)

  • 4 Mark Drew // Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    I was thinking that the metaphor was quite wrong... but the visualisation is what I wanted to get across... good times :D

    MD