Hi!


>One thing I hadn't thought of was the memory that's requird to buffer tables. If I open tables READ ONLY, would that involve some sort of memory saving?
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I guess no. When you open table with no buffering - definitely it will save memory. Buffering modes take memory to store values, though 2-d and 3-d take little of memory anyway.


>I am also wondering that if you instantiate an object on a web server, and that machine is serving multiple clients, if an object has been instantiated, will it be able to serve multiple users? Both Vlad and Christof have indicated that subsequent object instantiations occur much more quickly.
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This question is much more complex as for a sngle thread. WEB srver could work in different processes for different users. VFP app can work as COM object under MTS etc etc. There are no a generic approach to evaluate performance for each particular case. Just make a simple test program and compare. There are also a lot of articles with recommendations and analisis, however, I feel like I'm more quick in making test program that test what approach is better than in the readin articles.