Hi Charlie,

A fine article indeed.

I offer two comments:

1) Walter M. was heavily "abused" on UT when he dared to suggest that a TAG on DELETED() was not such a good idea before that FPA article was out. I'm not sure if your article is referring to that particular thread or some other.

2) I didn't see anything specific about the effects in prior releases of FP/VFP. Also, your supposition that people were gauging the speed based on the return of "fully optimized" surely doesn't hold water since this practise has been in use long before SYS(305?) came into being.


I still personally feel that VFP changed the game on this somewhere along the way but agree that what is happening today is what really matters.

Cheers

Jim N

>Hi Christof, et.al.,
>Our user group newletter has yet to come out so I have placed my latest article on my site, Rushmore Optimization for your comments. It took considerable effort, so I am shamelessly checking the forward a copy to these members, hoping you all will give it a read. Included are charts showing the number of bytes used by the deleted tag per number of records, a TestData class generator, and other test info. For those who don't wish to check it out, the summary is, "DelTag, not so good."
>Charlie