Hi jess,

>This is in relation with the 5 star rate of VFP7 given by 3 folks. Any criteria in rating VFP7 as a product?
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>With due respect to you guys, I rate VFP7 based on these criteria:
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>3. Compiler Performance       3  no native compilation support.
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A Native compiler would not support functions and commands like &, EVAL(), COMPILE, _VFP.DoCmd, (EXECSCRIPT ?) and others which have evaluate ascii characters as commands. Native compilers have a cost in that flexibility decreases (as you cannot use the commands above)

A Native compiler is heavely overrated IMO. A Native compiler is not going to make our forms, DML commands, SQL, file handling faster. The bottleneck is I/O rather than pure processor performance. Only if you want to do fast calculations and very intensive calculation loops with no file I/O a native compiler would help a bit. OTOH, if you're planning to do this, you'd better write a DLL in VC++ to do just that.

Since the processors are getting faster by the month the importance of a native compile decreases. It's better to find a way to reduce other I/O (graphics card, Disk or network) since the vast majority of performance problems arise here.

my fl 0,02

Walter,