One of the new features added to ColdFusion 9 is the Cache Template in Request setting located on the Server Settings > Caching page of the ColdFusion Administrator. The setting was recently featured in the ColdFusion 9 Performance Brief showing a 50x boost when enabled.

Adobe has posted a ColdFusion 9 Performance Brief, outlining several performance improvements over ColdFusion 7 and 8. The brief reports a 40% performance improvement over ColdFusion 8, and a 500% improvement over ColdFusion 7, running CanvasWiki.