Strange question...
VFP is a semi-interpreted language. This compile first in p-code and in runtime compile to machine-code. So must be slow compile 50 skip than 1 skip 50.
But not all is get fast code. Clear code is best. So, if in a 1 line you can get the work of 50, keep with it!
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