>>Just one quick question. Wasn't the function call (in both cases) always the slowest? It should have been.
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>Yes, if I used REPLICATE("A", 5) as the constant, it was always slowest. But with the constant being "AAAAA" the results varied with every time it was run. Weird!!

Well, I wouldn't think it was that weird. You'll never see exactly the same results under Windows. I would think that it would be more pronounced with a 16 bit application running under a 32 bit OS due to the translation required.