John,

You make a good point - which serves to support my point that it is nonsense to say that VFP is the fastest thing out there when it comes to local data and strings.


>Dear John
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>In comparing speed of dotNET to VFP, you simply *must* define the specific task you are comparing. This is that same old "one slogan does not match every circumstance" problem.
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>If the task is driving down a rocky river bed, insisting that a Porsche is faster than a Humvee is a waste of everybody's time.
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>Ditto with VFP and dotNET. The reality is that for many needs, performance is not the main issue anyway- the pipe is the bottleneck, not the app.
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>regards
>
>j.R