>Mike,
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>For completeness I'll reply here, but see my reply to Fabio.
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>I'm not saying use different standards at all. The standard I use is to 99.999% of the time to not use m. and for the rare instances where there's a reason for using it there's a comment put in the code saying why it's there.

That is two standards - the percentage is irrelevant. Just as "faster" is "faster" no matter the percentage.

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>I'm saying that the only place you'll see measurable performance differences is in high execution count loops.. I try my best to avoid such situations in runtime interpreter based languages like VFP.
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>>How many drywallers use a screw in one place, a nail in the next and staples in a third on the same sheet of drywall? How many internal combustion engines use a spark plug in one cylinder, a pair of bare wires in a second and a lighter in a third?
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>>I see most industries opt for a single way to do a single task. I use mdot all the time, not only if I'm doing some high execution loop.