>Ack, external functions are actually _faster_ than methods? Can anyone >confirm this?

I just did a test that simply called each of a method, fucntion in proc file and prg function. The functions return .t.. I called them 10,000 times each and the times ( for 10,000 calls) were;

Method 0.6 Avg
Procedure file func 0.2 avg
PRG func 0.2 avg

I would conclude that although there is a difference between the calling of methods vs procs, it is insignificant as it is less than 0.4 seconds for 10,000 calls.

JimBooth