>>Very interesting results. No, I don't need to open that many of them. And the time to open is not a concern but rather how much memory and resources the object takes, even if one is open. I don't even know how to find out what memory and resources footprint this or that object takes. But, in the end, your test proves that what I perceive to be "heavy" maybe is not such a bad thing. I will definitely consider Form now as a base for my business object class.
>>Thank you very much!
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>I believe that for the memory used, you would use sys(1016).
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>This sample program:
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>StartTime = seconds()
>? "Memory used at start:", SYS(1016)
>dimension oArray(100)
>for i = 1 to 100
>	oArray(i) = CreateObject("Form")
>next
>EndTime = seconds()
>? "Time to instantiate:", EndTime - StartTime
>? "Memory used at peak:", SYS(1016)
>release oArray
>? "Time to release:", seconds() - EndTime
>? "Memory used after release:", SYS(1016)
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>indicates a use of about 1000 bytes per Form. The memory used initially increases slightly after the first run, but then it stabilizes.
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>You might also want to: test with the Session class for comparison; and search the sys() function for free memory, as a double-check.

Thank you very much for the sample test code. As soon as I get my VFP 9 package, I will be doing this testing.