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WOW! As you probably know, performance and stability improvements were one of the top priorities for the release of ColdFusion MX 6.1. Tim Buntel, on an internal mailinglist, pointed to the new Performance Brief for ColdFusion MX 6.1 which is now available. It shows that the ColdFusion development team did a great job!

Some quick numbers that Tim mentioned:

• Windows 2000: Approximately 23 times faster than ColdFusion 4.5, 3 times faster than ColdFusion 5, and 2.5 times faster than ColdFusion MX



• Windows 2003: Approximately 3 times faster than ColdFusion 5



• Linux: Approximately 5 times faster than ColdFusion 5



• Solaris: Approximately 4 times faster than ColdFusion 5



• Dynamic email delivery capability increased as much as 50 times more than CF 5

The Performance Brief also explains some of the engineering work that went into achieving these dramatic improvements. Nearly one hundred customer applications consisting of approximately 2.4 million lines of CFML code were used for analyzing CFML usage patterns and to look for bottlenecks in real-world customer settings. Where issues were revealed, the server runtime code was then tuned to eliminate them, resulting in dramatic cumulative effect.