Hi Peter,

>The big question now is: Will C++ or Delphi do this job significantly faster??

Yes. C++ is way much faster with string handling than VFP. As I just prepare a session about writing FLLs I've finished a sample a couple of days ago that reverses a string. With 5 bytes, the C++ routine is a whopping 2% faster <g>, but when dealing with 50 KB strings, C++ was over 40000% faster. That is, a FoxPro routine that runs for 7 hours would finish in a minute in C++ code.

The real question, though, is: Is your VFP code too slow and is it worth to rewrite part of or the entire application.

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Christof