Thank you for your *colorful* and informative reply :-)

>Todd,
>
>To piggyback of George's reply. If you happen to be using something besides VFP6 SP3 (yes folks this age old bug seems to be fixed by SP3)
>
>If you have a subroutine in it's own .prg file that's called LOTS of times, comment out the FUNCTION or PROCEDURE statement. This is one place where good programming practice makes FoxPro performance suck.
>
>Test this to see just how dramatic it is:
>
>x = seconds()
>for i = 1 to 100000
> TestSlow(i)
>endfor
>? seconds() - x
>
>x = seconds()
>for i = 1 to 100000
> TestFast(i)
>endfor
>? seconds() - x
>
>* testslow.prg
>function TestSlow
>lparameter pnArgument
>return .t.
>
>* testfast.prg
>*function TestSlow()
>lparameters pnArgument
>return .t.
>
>In VFP5 there's a 7 to 1 performance improvement. In VFP6 SP3 the performance difference isn't really measureable.
>
>>I am running a program that takes about 5.5 hours... and any little thing I can do to speed it up is worthwhile.

--Todd Sherman
-Wake Up! Smell the Coffee!