>We have recently converted a large project to all PRG classes. (About 280 classes.) Our primary motivator was to enable source comparison and archiving. We can see right off that the EXE is half the size of when we were using VCX classes.
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>See 'PRG vs VCX'
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http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~PRGvsVCX~VFP>
>One big downside is that a simple build (not RECOMPILE) takes ten times longer than before. For example on an older machine the build in VFP9 takes 160 seconds instead of 14 seconds with the VCX classes. (Dual-core Dell in shipment now. :)
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>BTW, having all of the FXP files in place has no effect.
This sort of slowdown is what you might see if your system started paging to disk (i.e. ran out of physical RAM). Is it possible that's happening?
Regards. Al
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