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VFP 3.0/5.0 Memory and performance
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Visual FoxPro
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00022631
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>Feb 1997 issue of FoxTalk had an excellent
>article on How Visual FoxPro Memory useage
>affects performance.
>
>IF you can get your hands on this article I would
>suggest you do it as it was an eye opener.
>
>The bottom line is that 95 or NT does memory managing in VFP, but in FoxPro 2.x FoxPro did the
>memory managing. 95 and NT are getting the
>memory allotted to any session consistently wrong and
>if developers do not catch this and handle it manually
>your performance will be affected. The article suggests you look at the SYS(3050) function and
>implement it into your code. It controls foreground
>SYS(3050,1) and background SYS(3050,2) memory.
>
>Our first attempt at VFP was a perfect example of what
>memory can do to an application and we have
>gleaned alot form this article.


Much Thanks! Will look at the functions. Thanks for describing it since I do not get FoxTalk & rely solely on VFUG/UT.

Thanks Again,
Tom
Tom
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