What's Quicker?

[dcarlson]

Stupid question but which way is faster, if at all?

<%
Response.Write "File # " & strfilenum
%>

or

File # <%=strfilenum%>

Thanks

[parksie]

Technically, the second, since it doesn't have to concatenate the string first. However the difference is so marginal that you'll probably never notice.

[dcarlson]

That's what I though, however if I'm iterating through a recordset I'd like for it to be as fast as possible.

[parksie]

In that case, avoid changing between ASP / HTML. As in, the second way, it swaps between them. If you're looping through a recordset, keep it all in ASP code for speed.

[dcarlson]

Sounds good.

Thanks,

[Ianpbaker]

There isn't any difference apart from the concatenation as mentioned.

If you have an error in what is being outputed using the <% = blah %>, the error message that comes up is Error - type mismatch in response.write(blah).

so I don't think there is any difference apart from the time it takes to write it.

Ian

[kb244]

I always considered the first to be typically faster, if you stayed in ServerSide script long
for example

<%
.....
%>

the doted line being several lines , and all responses are sent with Response.write, and %> isnt reached until page is finished.