>Hi Peter,
>
>>Could you send me the vfp routine and the time you expect? I also have c++ (visual studio 5), so maybe you could also send the c++ routine.
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>You mean the FLL I used to test this and the VFP code? Sure.
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>>But can it also be used to create a faster, let's say, LEFT() or FGETS() ?
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>Probably not. The big overhead in VFP is calling a function. To increase performance in a VFP application you must move large chunks to C++ and minimize the number of calls.
>
>>Maybe I should come to your session.
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>Great! It's in German, though.
>
>--
>Christof

Hi Christof,

Just out of curiosity, have you benchmarked VFP 8 and C++ when finding the number of occurences of Anna in a text file of War and Peace? I thought Steven Black had run some tests that showed VFP as faster a few years ago.

John