>>>>>Try (4) only for starters ( you may want to play with 64 and try different values) , and take it to 500 iterations so you can compare with the previous results
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>>>>Same thing - start with ~0.14 sec. and end with 1.73 sec.
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>>>>I'm thinking - can it help to sleep for, say, 2 sec. after 50 iterations?
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>>>So, no improvement at all - gonna sleep on it
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>>For now, no improvements at all. I removed all code except for return string from another procedure (my colleague has been testing this one) and I'll see how it performs when it does nothing - does the execution time increase or not - running this test now - hang on few minutes.
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>>From 0.02 to 0.12 - what do you think?
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>>From 0.02 to 0.12 - what do you think?
>I dunno - you tell me
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>Let me sleep on it, I'll give you an answer in the morning ...

That's fine, thanks again - I'll see your answer Saturday night. Let me know if you want to see the programs and log file.
There are only 2 prg and the log.