>>>Perhaps not, or if so, only slightly. Macros have always slowed down the execution of code.
>>
>>Greg,
>>EXECSRIPT() is equal to:
>>STRTRAN(variable, [some temp file.PRG])
>>COMPILE [some temp file.PRG]
>>DO [some temp file.Fxp]
>>ERASE ([some temp file.*]
>>
>>So how this could be faster that macro?
>
>After some experimenting with using ExecScript versus Macros (in my next release of Query) I decided to use a Macro to execute the SQL statement instead of ExecScript. There was a 2.5% increase in speed with the Macro. WOW, Now we are flying. :-)
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