Nice one. So nice when there's a simple fix. Godnose how we were supposed to figure that out for ourselves. How did you come across that little "feature"?

>New report engine takes more time for rendering pages, Try with
>SET REPORTBEHAVIOUR 80 to see if the speed is changed.
>
>
>
>>even with trivial datasets on a standalone machine.
>>
>>Even from the command line, if I run
>>
>>REPORT FORM XXX PREVIEW IN SCREEN
>>
>>for a trivial report with a few hundred records
>>
>>it can take up to a minute to display the result.
>>
>>If I immediately repeat the command, it will typically halve the time.
>>
>>After four or five attempts, it is instantaneous.
>>
>>So it is clearly behaving like there is some kind of cacheing issue but on such trivial reports and trivial amounts of local data, this doesn't make sense.
>>
>>It's only been an issue since VFP9 and it seems to be more of a problem for me than my clients (fortunately - or they'd be ripping me apart!) Which suggests its something to do with the VFP environment but I can't track it down.
>>
>>Any suggestions?