Best practices - file sizes? CF Builder limit

There are plenty of practical limits to file sizes, all along the way from writing to execution. At one point, there was a maximum Java class file size. I don't know if that's still a potential issue. I would strongly recommend that you have several smaller files instead of one large file, as it'll generally make it easier for you to write and manage that code.

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

As far as I know, there is no straightforward answer to the question of maximum file-size for the ColdFusion Builder 2018 editor. Nevertheless I can aim for a good guess.

ColdFusion Builder's settings are stored in the configuration file located at {CFBUILDER_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY}/CFBuilder.ini. For example, on my installation of ColdFusion Builder 2018, the configuration file is C:\ColdFusionBuilder2018\CFBuilder.ini. Its contents are:

-startup

plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.100.v20180827-1352.jar

--launcher.library

plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.800.v20180827-1352

-vmargs

-Xmx1024m

-Xms64m

-XX:MetaspaceSize=32m

-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

-Duser.language=en

-Duser.country=US

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

This shows at once that Builder is a Java application based on Eclipse software. So I searched on the web for information about file-size limit in Eclipse. I discovered there is no limit.

Therefore my guess will only depend on Builder being a Java application. Furthermore, as the setting -Xmx determines the maximum working memory of a Java application, I shall consider it to determine the absolute maximum file-size.

But the software has other tasks to perform. Hence my guess that

       maximum file-size = (1/10)th of the Xmx value

In my case, this would be

        maximum file-size = (1/10) x 1024 MB = 102 MB