Rick,

>In case you didn't see it, there was an in-depth article about this in the May 1999 FoxPro Advisor ("Rushmore: Less is More", by Chris Probst, pp. 34-39) which supports this finding. Well worth reading.

Thanks for the citation. I missed that one, but saw some of the recent threads here about DELETED() performance problems. I'll go dig it out, now that my curiosity is piqued.