>Yes. It seems that Empty is exactly equivalent to an object created with
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SCATTER NAME oFoo FIELDS EXCEPT *

but you don't have to switch to an occupied work area in order to create one. ;-)
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>Strangely enough, SYS(1016) reports no memory consumption at all, but this is probably due to some accounting trick. Creation speed on my notebook is about 370k/s, which is more than twice as fast as the next contender (Exception with 140k/s, followed by Timer and Relation with 100k/s). Numbers given are for VFP8; in earlier versions Relation seems to give the best overall result if you discount SCATTER objects.

Thanks - Now I go swap some sessions for Mr. Empty:-)