Betas will be slower because they include debugging info in the builds. This is like you selecting the "Include Debug Info" in the Project Info before you compile your apps. When they release the final version, this info will not be compiled into the product and the performance will return.

>This trend it leaves perplexed to me.
>
>A simple, very simple code:
>

>SET ESCAPE ON
>* BURN IN
>FOR k=1 TO 2000000
>NEXT
>t1=SECONDS()
>FOR k=1 TO 20000000
>NEXT
>T2=SECONDS()-T1
>t1=SECONDS()
>FOR k=1 TO 20000000
> =.T.
>NEXT
>T3 = SECONDS()-T1
>? T2, T3 - T2
>* vfp6.5 : 1.212  1.073
>* vfp7.1 : 1.175  0.824
>* vfp8.1 : 1.040  1.616
>* VFP9.b : 1.136  2.716
>

>
>I aspected near values with this simple code.