Hi Tracy. Thanks for that feedback. It would appear that there is definitly a change in behaviour in VFP8. I will try to CLEAR the DLL explicitly and check the performance.



>Mine too. When I clear each dll explicitly it works:
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>CLEAR DLLS "MyDLL1"
>CLEAR DLLS "MyDLL2"
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>is much faster in VFP8 on my W2K SP3 dev box than just issuing CLEAR DLLS or even listing them out on one command line.
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>However, I have no problem in VFP7 Sp1 with just issuing CLEAR DLLS. Same app, same code, same development machine, different version of VFP.
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>>>>Sarosh. What OS are you running? And hardware?
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>>>Hi!
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>>>Tried it on W2K/VFP8.0 P4 1.4Ghz 256 RAM and XP/VFP8.0 P4 2.4 Ghz 512 RAM same problem on both
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>>Sarosh. Is this running a plain vanila VFP program or via some other means? Can you also run your program as a VFP7 app and try it?
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>>The reason I ask is that I have a VFP8 program that uses the gzip dll under W2K Server with dual PIII processors and issuing a CLEAR DLL's also takes very long. But as a VFP7 program it does not. Hence I would like to understand the commonality between our two situations.