>>>One of my beefs with vfp is that if you refactor parts of less than 10 lines into methods/functions just the call overhead sometimes more than triples the time neededto execute.
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>I'd noticed one of the clever C++ Make features that it automatically inlines short functions if you configure for performance rather than small dll size.

Exactly the feature I was hoping for with compiler hints. Now factor in the pure execution times of vfp being 10-35 times slower for call overhead depending on number and type of parameters ;-)