>>>I am running a program in my development environment and I was wondering fi there is any benefit to making it an app or a exe file? All the program code, forms, reports, etc are in the current directory.
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>>>I'll test it myself, but I don't won't to go thru it if someone else has already.
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>>>Thanks!
>>Hi Todd,
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>>EXEs have headers to allow them to load. APPs don't have the headers. All three contain tokenized p-code, so there shouldn't be any performance differences after the modules have been loaded.
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>Hi George - I think the point was, unless I'm mistaken, of which is faster when you're developing and continually building & running. In that case, the APP should be faster. Not that I actually bother with using an APP myself, as I need to test so frequently on my test machine (that doesn't have vfp installed), and an APP won't do me any good there...
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>There's extra overhead in creating the EXE from the APP each time...

Hi Bruce,

Funny how two people can look at the same post and get two different impressions. From his response to me, however, I don't think that was the issue. You are right, however, about the extra time involved in creating an EXE each time.