>How much effect does setting the foreground and background memory actually have?
>and what is an ideal setting?
>
>Has anyone done a study of these?

Mac Rubel did a tremendous amount of work on this issue a few years back, and discovered that memory allocation actually makes a big difference. (Most interestingly, it turns out that too much memory allocated can be a major bottleneck.) His results were published in a series of articles in FoxPro Advisor.

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