>Fabio,
>
>You are a "one man wrecking crew"!<g> Everytime I see one of your bug posts I thank my lucky stars that you are not one of my customers. (I mean this as a great complement)
>

:)))))

>What is the purpose of the following code snippet in your example?
>
>

>FOR k=1 TO 1000000
>NEXT
>

>

The new CPUs have or they will have all some formalities that suit him for the request of power of calculation (to reduce the consumptions); when it is required to the CPU to work
this increases the performances with various algorithms, all of this it creates a latency
(around a 0.5-1.0s) during which the performances are not 100%.
The loop forces the CPU to go themselves to regime before making the measure.

>Thanks for taking the time to share your findings!
>
>Malcolm