Thanks Viv. Was to be expected for anything C :) Would this be the same for VB.Net since they run off the same underlying platform?


>>Hi All,
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>

>>CLEAR
>>tStartTime = SECONDS()
>>ta=0
>>FOR i = 1 TO 1000000
>>  ta = Log(i) + Cos(i) + Sin(i) + Log(i) + exp(i)
>>next  
>>? SECONDS() - tStartTime 
>>
>>*
>>
>>tStartTime = SECONDS()
>>ta = ""
>>FOR i = 1 TO 1000000
>>  ta = ta + "xx"
>>next  
>>? SECONDS() - tStartTime 
>>

>
>On a fairly old machine:
>VFP : 1.298 seconds and .898 seconds.
>
>C# (code below) : 480 milliseconds and 25 milliseconds

static void Main(string[] args)
>        {
>            Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
>            sw.Start();
>            double ta = 0;
>            for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
>            {
>                ta = Math.Log(i) + Math.Cos(i) + Math.Sin(i) + Math.Log(i) + Math.Exp(i);
>            }
>       
>            Console.WriteLine("Milliseconds: {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
>            sw.Reset();
>            sw.Start();
>            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
>            for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
>            {
>                sb.Append("xx");
>            }
>            string s = sb.ToString();
>            Console.WriteLine("Milliseconds {0}", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
>            Console.ReadLine();
>        }