>Peter,
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>Once in memory, procedures or functions tends to remain in memory. This has been the case with FoxBASE/FoxPro for at least 13 years. I this is the reason that the CLEAR PROGRAM call exists.

Well that's what I thought. So why does it take 90 ms on every call to the function? (I assume that is the time required to search the path and find the FXP file.)

I could put a CLEAR PROGRAM after every call in my test loop. My expectation is that this would not make the loop noticeably slower.

Peter