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[Matthew White]

Kevin I am 95% certain the wpe is multithreaded in FMSA 8 (and 7).

matt


On 3/20/06 5:04 PM, "Kevin Futter" <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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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