I have a COM object that have a method

next( [in, out] long* val, [in,out] BSTR* str )
next do this
*val++
and assign some value to str.

This object is implemented in a ATL DLL


i executed this code in vfp

obj = createobject("sample.sample.1")
val = 0
str = ""
ahora = datetime()
do while (val < 1000000)
obj.next(@val,@str)
enddo
messagebox(ahora - datetime())

The message is 79, the equivalent code in VB say 5.

are there some problem in COM comunication with VFP ?