Hi!

See my another comment. Transaction is a very complex functionality, so there is a big probability that such slow down is because a lot of debugging code - more complex code -> more debugging code in beta -> more slow down.

>HI vlad,
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>>Beta software usually contains a lot of code and tracking features for debugging purposes. Such commands as Begin/End Transaction are very complex and run a lot of VFP code, and thus, I guess, slow down for them is very significant with debugging code included.
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>Yes I know, However a slowdown from only a few thousands of a second to 2 seconds seem extraodinary to me, even if its due to debug code.
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>Walter,
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>>>HI all,
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>>>One of my projects, I compiled in VFP8 beta, uses BEGIN TRANSACTION where lots of local views in an included database are involved.
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>>>From the coverage profiler I found that the BEGIN TRANSACTION takes about 2 seconds and the END TRANSACTION takes another second while only one field in one record has been changed. The same code in VFP7 (operating on the very same database) is blazingly fast.
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>>>I know, I know I should draw conclusions from a beta release, but still these kind of performance issues seem to odd to me..
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>>>Walter,