>I'd be interested to see other comparisons. I know string handling was touted in VFP as being faster than anything anyone had seen but I'm going to put together some tests comparing that in VFP and C# as well.
In my computer (Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8400 2.67GHz, Windows 7 64) it runs in about 4 seconds with the Rand() inside the loop, it takes 0.077384 seconds in your C# code
[Update], forgot to mention that I changed int a and int b to long a and long b for the test and float a, float b with little difference (I mistyped the time, was 0.0377384)
[Update 2] Ran the FoxPro test on a Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 GHz on XP 32 bits, and it took 3.848 seconds, almost the same as the other one (by the way, I added m.a and m.b in the loop).
[Update 3] Sorry for all the updates
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