Brien,
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>Given your system specs, I don't know why we are experiencing such drastically different results. I am running the code in VFP 6.0 SP3 on a standalone WinBook PII 300 with 128MB of RAM. I modified the code to run 10x and these are the results:
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I don't know. SP4?? Obviously, there's a significant difference between the two and while the clock speeds are relatively close and mine's faster than your's, I would expect a difference, but not as great as is shown.