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Pentium is too fast
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30/06/1998 23:30:54
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
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00113168
Message ID:
00113253
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Matt,

I don't think the KB article goes into all of the specific things that cause flakey behavior in FPW on fast processors. If the slowdown link I also posted doesn't solve the problem about the only other alternative available is to port the code into VFP, or leave it on low end machines.

> I am interested in a different problem regarding computer speed. The following code would skip records when run on a "Fast" Computer
>
>Example:
>
>SELECT x
>SCAN
> IF x.number > 0
> INSERT INTO high FROM MEMVAR
> ELSE
> INSERT INTO low FROM MEMVAR
> ENDIF
>ENDSCAN
>
>Record count of x = 1000
>Record count of high = 300
>Record count of low = 400
>
>This is just a hypothetical example of what I have seen. I know I could use a COPY TO statement here, but the point is that it doesn't work as one would expect. Does this make sense?
df (was a 10 time MVP)

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