Hi Jos,

I think you should look at the tests and just implement those in vfp you think are relevant.
The tasks shown in the shootout give some indication on what is fast in what type of language.
Vfp is in line with fast scripting languages - all of them have some strengths and weaknesses.

And don't forget that minimal code in scripting languages should be moved to a more to the metal language
if it is slowing down the whole app. Example in vfp is the Levenshtein in my apps -
I needed that and a C implementaion of just the function called is about 10 times faster,
which cut down processing time by a large percentage.

What are you after - switching as a whole or speeding up part of something currently vfp coded ?

regards

thomas

>Thanks Thomas, but without the VFP I can't do the comparison. I'm not looking for fastest language, which imo is not so relevant anymore for general applications. I am looking for VFP vs. a couple of major languages.
>
>>Hi Jos,
>>
>>google for Great Computer Language Shootout.
>>There is already a lot of code in many languages written to compared -
>>only the vfp part is missing.
>>Especially some of the older Win32 variations should be easy to do.
>>Somewhere must be the search for prime number I once ported to test my take ;-)
>>
>>regards
>>
>>thomas
>>,
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>>>I am doing a raw speed test on some very simple operations to compare basic VFP operations with another language. Would some of you care to do a similar test against another language of your choice? e.g. Python, PHP, VB.Net, whatever. I am looking for VFP speed vs. language_of_your_choice speed on the same machine. Here are two simple tests manipulating some numbers and building a string in VFP
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