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POIs there a tangible performance or readability benefit to using tags versus CFSCRIPT?
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    copied!<p>I am using ColdFusion 8 and 9.</p> <p>I was reading some ColdFusion best practices yesterday. I came across a section that advised to always use CFSCRIPT whenever possible. The reasoning was that each CFSET is a separate request and needs to be opened and closed by the server (or something to that effect). Since CFSCRIPT is handled as a single block of code, only one open and close is necessary, thereby taking less time for the server process. This advice was given explicitly for ColdFusion 5.</p> <p>I am wondering if this advice holds true today, almost a decade later. Personally, I use CFSCRIPT 99% of the time. I do, however, work with people who use only tags. In a project that I am working on, I encountered this code within a function:</p> <pre><code>&lt;cfset LOCAL.TrackingInfo = structnew()&gt; &lt;cfset LOCAL.TrackingInfo.referral = CGI.HTTP_REFERER&gt; &lt;cfset LOCAL.TrackingInfo.ipaddress = CGI.REMOTE_ADDR&gt; &lt;cfset LOCAL.TrackingInfo.useragent = CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT&gt; &lt;cfset LOCAL.TrackingInfo.querystring = CGI.QUERY_STRING&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would modify it to look like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;cfscript&gt; LOCAL.TrackingInfo = structNew(); LOCAL.TrackingInfo.referral = CGI.HTTP_REFERER; LOCAL.TrackingInfo.ipaddress = CGI.REMOTE_ADDR; LOCAL.TrackingInfo.useragent = CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT; LOCAL.TrackingInfo.querystring = CGI.QUERY_STRING; &lt;/cfscript&gt; </code></pre> <p>For me, the benefit is readability. And, it's really easy to go back and forth between CFSCRIPT and JavaScript and Java (the little Java that I have done). </p> <p>Is there a tangible readability or performance benefit to using CFSCRIPT? Is there any reason for a non-beginner to continue using CF tags?</p>
 

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