OK, Thanks Martin.

Your bad English is way better than my Czech is or ever will be!

>Hi Frank,
>
>>So you're saying that the difference in time is VFP's own overhead and nothing to do with my code? I'm still not quite grasping what you are trying to say.
>
>Yes, it's possible. Sorry for my bad english.
>
>>
>>FWIW, I switched my CASE statement to an IF..END loop and that seems to have sped things up considerably.
>
> Yes, CASE/ENCASE construction can be time at time slowly then IF/ENDIF.
>
>MartiJ
>
>>>Hi Frank,
>>>
>>>I'm sorry,
>>>
>>> M - method, P - procedure
>>>
>>>MartiJ
>>>
>>>>Hi Martin,
>>>>
>>>>I don't understand what you are trying to say. What are M/P and MP? Could you try to explain again, please?
>>>>
>>>>>The diferrent time between calling from parent M/P and all time from inner MP is:
>>>>>

>>>>>t1=seco()
>>>>>put parameters to stackpoint
>>>>>Call subroutine
>>>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>the proccesor time has another thread/process
>>>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>get parameters and result from stackpoint
>>>>>t2=seco()
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>MartiJ
>>>>>