Thanks very much Fabio. Interesting info.

Ciao


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>>Compare data elaboration in VFP8 with VFP7: VFP8 is slower.
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>Hi Fabio. Can you expand on/explain further please?
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>On VFP8 the allocation of the memory has been optimized for the construction of groups of objects.
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>But whichever program executed in VFP8SP1 is slower of the 5-15% regarding VFP7SP1.
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>This is repeated also in VFP9Beta,
>and I am sure that this slowing down will remain also in the release final of VFP9.
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>I think does not depend on a rewrite of the code,
>but from the simple fact that the VFP VM become larger
>and therefore the VM code/data probability of having in the CPU' s cache diminishes.
>This is not true for VFP6 to VFP7 step because VFP7 VM is faster.
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>Speedup the VFP VM is possible, and also a lot,
>but the VFP characteristics demand a remarkable effort of programming in order to make it.
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>Fabio