>>I don't think anyone has a version of VFP6 without the debuggin code in it so speed tests are sort of useless at this point.
>
>Well, not totally Jim. The string manipulation tests are valid. Do you think they'll be much faster after the debugging code is removed? I tested the following just now:
>
>*String manipulation speed test
>* Pentium II 300, NT Workstation 64 meg ram
>x=''
>start=seconds()
>for i = 1 to 100000
>x=x+'a'
>endfor
>end=seconds()
>? len(x)
>? end-start
>*VFP 5 - 67.516
>*VFP 6 - 0.328

John,

Well then, I guess we can safely say that VFP6 is a little quicker than VFP5 in string manipulation :-)