[FX.php List] Update a field in all related records.

[Kevin Futter]

We're about to start planning our migration from the current v5.5/v6
infrastructure to v8, so I guess I'm not qualified to comment at this stage.
However, my understanding was that v8 WPE is still only single-threaded, and
the same limitations still apply. I could be wrong though.

Kevin

On 20/3/06 4:33 PM, "Greg Lane" <glane at moyergroup.com> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I agree with many of your points, if you're talking about version 6
> or prior. Do you have these same concerns with FMSA 7/8? I've found
> using FM scripts to be a good way to reuse business logic across FMP/
> IWP/CWP interfaces (but unfortunately not xDBC). FM scripts can also
> be a very useful tool for performance optimization (particularly for
> complex finds and multiple edits/deletes).
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:
> 
>> Actually, the "rule of thumb" is generally to avoid running FM
>> scripts from
>> the web if at all possible. They represent a security weakness,
>> they can be
>> slow and error-prone (which is a particular problem if you're not
>> capturing
>> the errors), and they also affect performance on busy machines.
>> Since FM's
>> web engine is single-threaded, each request has to queue behind the
>> one
>> running, and FM scripts only exacerbate this by slowing down the
>> current
>> request.
> 
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