I am working on a performance analysis for a client, some page requests need to do a cfhttp call, I had the thought to use cfthread for the http call, so that other processing could happen in parallel.

I love the fact that you can now create threads with CFML in ColdFusion 8, however as Spiderman can tell you with great power comes great responsibility.

Using threads can increase the performance of your application, however using threads can also decrease performance.