>>Brien,
>>
>>I just re-tested another six time with the same results. The only modification to your code that I made was the addition of an additional FOR...NEXT and variables to hold the totals. Again, the average was SEEK was more than 250% faster than LOCATE, with the average being around 1.25 for LOCATE and .50 for SEEK. Tests were conducted using VFP 6.0 SP4 on PII 350 with 128 mb of RAM. The cursor created was on the local drive.
>
>George,
>
>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:
>
>Locate: 4.02 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>Locate: 3.98 seconds vs. Seek: 3.91 seconds.
>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>Locate: 3.97 seconds vs. Seek: 3.97 seconds.
>Locate: 4.16 seconds vs. Seek: 4.25 seconds.
>Locate: 4.35 seconds vs. Seek: 4.24 seconds.
>Locate: 4.32 seconds vs. Seek: 4.24 seconds.
>Locate: 4.35 seconds vs. Seek: 4.11 seconds.
>Locate: 3.98 seconds vs. Seek: 3.90 seconds.
>
>
>Anyone else want to test the code?
>
>

>LOCAL lnFile, lnI, lnJ, lnLocate, lnSeek, lnTime
>
>IF !USED("Test")
>  CREATE CURSOR Test (pID i)
>  INDEX ON pID TAG pID
>  FOR lnI = 1 TO 1000
>    INSERT INTO Test VALUE (lnI)
>  ENDFOR
>ENDIF
>
>lnFile = FCREATE("TestResults.txt")
>FOR lnI = 1 TO 10
>  SET ORDER TO
>  lnTime = SECONDS()
>  FOR lnJ = 1 TO 10000
>    LOCATE FOR pID = 699
>  ENDFOR
>  lnLocate = SECONDS() - lnTime
>
>  SET ORDER TO pID
>  lnTime = SECONDS()
>  FOR lnJ = 1 TO 10000
>    SET ORDER TO pID
>    SEEK(699)
>    SET ORDER TO
>  ENDFOR
>  lnSeek = SECONDS() - lnTime
>  FPUTS(lnFile,"Locate: " + ALLT(STR(ROUND(lnLocate,2),10,2)) + ;
>    " seconds vs. Seek: " + ALLT(STR(ROUND(lnSeek,2),10,2)) + " seconds.")
>ENDFOR
>FCLOSE(lnFile)
>
>MODI FILE TestResults.txt
>

Brien,

These are my results:
Locate: 1.00 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 1.00 seconds vs. Seek: 0.25 seconds.
Locate: 1.00 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.
Locate: 0.99 seconds vs. Seek: 0.24 seconds.