>Hmmm, I was indeed confusing Delphi's standalone EXE files with VB native code that still requires DLLs to run.
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>However on this matter, compiling to native code is far overrated. In general only 5% overal performance gains can be reached by compiling to native code. Yes, it will make simple calculations a lot faster, but you'll gain no performance when using high level commands like SQL-SELECT, REPLACE, or other DML commands. In the case of formrefreshes, it might depend on the number of P-code lines executed during the refresh.
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>Walter

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"Yes, it will make simple calculations a lot faster" - Actually it will also make complex calculations faster, and moderatly complex calculations faster, and ...

"but you'll gain no performance when using high level commands like SQL-SELECT" - seems to me you are agreeing with my first post, but seem reluctant to admit it - "The only area in which VFP excels (relative to VB) is in data processing - fortunately this is pretty much all we want to do in VFP".