Hi Stefan,

The link in your message is broken. Here's the message I got

Not Found
The requested URL /dl/big_string_bench.prg was not found on this server.


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Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.meow-labs.de Port 80

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>The program has grown too big for inclusion in this post but I uploaded it as http://www.meow-labs.de/dl/big_string_bench.prg in case you want to check for yourself (I tested it on VFP3 and VFP7). You can also use the setup to run your own test statements like
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