CFCONTENT Performance?

[reactionnetworks]

I am currently working on an application where I am going to be serving up a
lot of images to end users (think: car/home listings w. images type deal). I
would like to use CFCONTENT to serve up all the images - but i'm unsure if my
server would take a big performance hit using the tag? I've used it in the past
to serve up images and other files with no problem, but i have never used it
to serve up a high volume of images on a high traffic application.

[Mr Black]

Unless you have REALLY good reson to use CFCONTENT (you create/transform images
dynamically, you do not want to give users direct access to them, etc), you
should let your Internet server to do this by using HTML IMG tags. This will
seriously improve the overall performance. CFCONTENT is times slower than the
direct link. Also, using CFCONTENT most likely will disable caching on both
sides, so all pages will be much slower than they could be.

[reactionnetworks]

Decided to go another route - thanks Mr Black