All I can surmise from your replies is that you simply don't believe the reported observations despite the clarifications that were offered through the thread.

That's fine, really, UNTIL you start telling other people what you said in this thread!

At least now it is clearer that you base this ONLY on OPINION and some silliness about lots of stuff running in the background when nothing is obviously running.

Your opinion ("Being that there is LOTS of legacy code in VFP, I doubt that is the case.") seems to be incorrect based on ErikM's comments in the cited thread AND other mentions of "Spy" observations by other people in other threads. And I am quite certain that the reported observation (subject of the cited thread) was with the standard background tasks running.

At the very least your offering in this thread (message #734555) should have been qualified as OPINION! As a MVP and also as someone known to be very tight with the VFP Team, people tend to take what you offer at face value.


>>Are you sure we're reading the same thread???
>>First, early in the thread, Erik Moore offered the following:"User code in VFP always runs in a single thread, and so your processes can be said to be single threaded, but VFP itself is multithreaded, and often runs internal tasks using 2 or 3 threads.".
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>That does NOT mean the threads will run on different CPUs...in fact, you have to VERY carefully design your application for that to happen. Being that there is LOTS of legacy code in VFP, I doubt that is the case.
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>>Secondly, EdR offered his opinion but was later told that the observation in question was with a single VFP application and NOTHING ELSE running.
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>Shut down all running applications on your PC, then open task manager and tell me how many things are really running. The OS runs lots of stuff. There are services that are running. Many other things are going on other than the single VFP app.
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>>We have a CLEAR observation that the same VFP application ran more than twice as fast on a dual processor system having nothing else running on it yet you stand by your posts!
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>My posts have stated that VFP will not take advantage of the multi-processors, but rather it is the OS and other services that are taking advantage of the CPUs.