Hi Leeroy,
Last year I was doing testing of the VFP 8.0 at MS. One of my assignments was to do a performance test of VFP. In do so, I had to do comparison between the various version of the VFP. I discovered that VFP 7.0 was about 150% faster then 6.0, and 8.0 was about 170% faster then 6.0. Even though, most of these tests involved post 2.6 feature, the test where designed to test the core of the product, not the features.
P.S. These figures are from memory and should not be quoted as fact.
Greg Reichert