Interesting, an avenue I did not try...
Will .prg automatically be compiled even if fxp is asked for?
Or do you have a compiler switch defined for the extension to be fxp under runtime only?

>We've had same performance problems some yeas ago and we figured out that using .fxp is much faster than .prg.
>
>Your Example:
>loJob = NewObject("Job", "Job.prg")
>
>changed to
>loJob = NewObject("Job", "Job.fxp")
>
>that did the job for us.
>Now it would be interesting a 4. test Szenario for you and all of us ;)