>>I was surprized the HTML/XML generation takes longer (multiple times!) than measured browser time. Of course such string handling will be faster in C/C++ code, but that one was the real surprise. "Internet" = Web server and transmission times lumped together?
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>Back in 2002 I had a routine which generated a very complicated table-within-table-within... (4 levels) with about 700 links in 0,7 seconds, in VFP7. Using mostly textmerge, IIRC.


hmmm, only used textmerge to get pretty printed SQL or other strings, but never measured it against traditional assignment.
Even if it should employ only normal variable assignment, the style should help to eliminate memory thrashing via unneccessary temp variables/steps in between.
Do you have reason to believe it employs something else like memory mapped files?

curious

thomas