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>Sure.. Did you ever hear of a product named "Force" ? It came out originally sometime in the late 80's but required that everything be declared up front, hence the inability to deal with macro substitution commands. It was really really fast even compared with FoxBase+, which even then was Speed King. Just no macro subs. If you had the ability to flip some sort of switch and were willing to take the hit on having no macro subs then I'd think that would be a fair tradeoff. If you could then the next question would be to determine whether or not there were enough speed benefits to make the effort worthwhile. That seems to me to be an unknown at this point I'd suppose...

hehe...as a matter of fact, I have. I have a couple of Force apps still out there. This evening I am making mods to one of them; I hope to port the app to VFP this summer.

Force is *incredibly* fast. I have wondered if anybody around here has ever used it, I don't even know where to go if I were to need any help with it. I am usually able to work around any issues that I have.

Macro subs would not be the only issue in VFP. Everytime a SQL statement is given to a listbox (or whatever) as a recordSource, it might be an issue. I suppose there could be a runtime element built into the exe that handles these sorts of issues (ala Clipper...it had a runtime engine built into the exe).