>The deal is once you reach a certain string size (which depends on available memory) Windows starts paging - at that point performance gets REALLY bad.
>
>What happens is that the decrease in performance is exponential. Performance
>is excellent until you hit about 100k. Increasing 100k to 1meg will take
>80 - 100 times longer than 100k for example. Going to 10 megs - I never
>got it to finish <s>...
>
>If you know your strings will be large (even if they're not so large - anything
>over 25k in my tests) its faster to write output to file and then read the file back into a string with FILETOSTR when you're done.

I remember that a few years ago I did something similar using a memo field. Did you make any tests on such thing too?

Vlad