>Hi Nadya,
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>SEEK/SCAN WHILE may be slower in this particular instance where you have so many iterations that have to execute the SEEK. Did you try the Coverage Profiler? I find it very userful to detect bottlenecks in this type of situations.
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>Sorin

I haven't tried it now, but did with the original code (about 40 versions back :)) I'm just so sick of looking at this code, that I'm going to switch to some other tasks.