85–88%
Faster Cold Startup
30–38 sec vs ~4 min 12 sec
Performance & Resource Efficiency
Internal benchmarks comparing Adobe ColdFusion 2025 and BoxLang on CommandBox show significant differences. Customers should validate with their own workloads.
95%
Smaller Engine
8.5 MB vs 169 MB on disk
83%
Lower Idle RAM
128 MB vs 768 MB minimum
69%
Faster CFC Creation
300 ms vs 964 ms
Brad Woods public benchmark shows BoxLang Query of Queries as 5× faster than Lucee and 17× faster than Adobe ColdFusion on average — with open source test code on GitHub for full reproducibility.