>>We are running a slowish P3 webserver with Windows 2000 for a ASP.NET with VFP8 webapp. We want more horsepower for the reporting module which is a VFP executable. If we buy a dual processor system will VFP8 be able to take advantage of the 2nd processor? Our ISP doesn't think it will.
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>I know conventional wisdom says vfp cannot make good use of extra processors, but I will argue otherwise, after installing a 2nd one on my main (vfp apps only) production server.
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>As a practical matter, the 2nd processor does seem to pick up a good share of the load, and it improves performance noticeably, regardless if it's merely in an "accidental" or "incidental" sort of way.
The reason may be that VFP is, quite simply, not the only application that runs at any one moment. For a start, you have the OS itself.
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