>>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.
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>This has gotten to a point where the only sensible answer I can give is
>(1) take it to iteration 500
>(2) Start coverage logging
>(3) let it do the iteration
>(4) stop coverage logging
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>Then see which parts take a long time

I've made a few changes in the write_log function and the time of execution is no longer increasing in my tests.