Using this exact same code, cursor was 3 seconds slower than using an array on my dual core machineProbably depends on whether VFP spans the cursor to disk. ;-)
Cursors are definitely quicker if the algorithm loops quickly and benefits from an index. In this case it doesn't, so probably there's no great advantage to be found. Referring to field names may be more readable than array dimensions, though you can achieve similar readability using #DEFINES.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
