>Funny you mention that - back around 1992-1993, Sequitur Software published a C/C++ library called CodeBase. It provided a number of xBase-style functions that you could incorporate into applications. They had a release that supported the CDX, and provided a 'bit-optimization' capability that was pretty close to what VFP had in Rushmore. I never did exact benchmarks between the two, but from what I remember, the speeds were pretty close.

If you did everything correct. One of my jobs back then involved moving an application to the codebase backend.
Moving the whole app to foxpro was not an option clearly stated at the outset, so I used their backend.
In performance it was light years ahead of the previous solution and clearly in similar league as FPD - but I had to write more code than I had anticipated.

>Ah, the good old days. ;)
Yupp, no eye candy and other fluff. Getting the basic biz functionality right was the important topic, not endless group discussions about style/UI issues. AND: the whole library fit easily on one 3.5' disc!

regards

thomas