>>Probably this is where Jim Booth would jump in stating that "the apps are slower by horrible 3% in the first case" and the overall difference is 0.027 vs 0.028 seconds for 10000 calls, and we have already spent ten years worth of this difference writing this.
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>Aw, you're being too hard on JimB.:-)

No, actually I was thinking I'm raising much ADO about nothing :), and hopefully he'd jump in saying how small the nothing was, and we'd better concentrate on more important issues. Voice of common sense, very often, he is.