Thanks for the support, John.

I backed down because after I issued the challenge, a client emergency happened and I was unable to meet the challenge. Meanwhile, it got perverted into an ASCII vs. Unicode deal and the VB side was able to steal the show with Unicode examples that had nothing to do with the original challenge.

So, as far as I am concerned, the benchmark was never really established.

>>>>>From the VFP web site:
>>John K. walked into an ambush there!
>
>Actually, JK did not walk into an ambush. Rather, he through out a challenge, the folks at DevX took him up on it, and he backed down. Unfortunately, JK crafted the challenge to be very open-ended, which had the unintended conseuqence of playing into VB's strengths.