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7 seconds is too much

Please go to FWH\samples and try:

buildh.bat fivedbu
buildh.bat fivedit

You will see that those apps start inmediately. Thats why I don't understand why yours takes 7 secs...

There must be a reason, but we have to find it...

... My app runs on a local Windows 10 PC. Because my app is at the beginning those dbf files have a maximum of only 10 records. As I described it takes about 1 second to start when built with xHarbour and about 6 or 7 seconds built with pure Harbour after I typed the exe name at my DOS prompt. ...

Dear Detlef,

what does your app startup does that takes such time ?

Could you describe its steps ?

Hi Carlos,
I must explain better…
the speed of the running app is okay.
I think it’s the same as with xHarbour.
Only the time it takes to start ist extremely different.

... is built without errors. But I have a new issue. My app created with xHarbour and bcc7 started within 1 second. Now with pure Harbour and bcc7 up takes at least 7 up to 10 seconds before the start dialog is shown. Is this normal for Harbour built apps?

... The only records read will be those you want. I tested a 1 million record DBF file using a scope to filter out about 20,000 records and it takes less than a second! Using a filter instead takes 23 seconds.

One possibility is to install Thunderbird on the user's pc and activate a gmail account.
You send the e-mail as you always have, which is to gmail, and Thunderbird takes care of the rest.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/th ... -and-gmail

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Regards Mr Rao
Reading the CSV file by passing it to an array() not even 15 seconds, 780,000 lines, reading as XLSX took a few hours
The recording if it takes 1 hour and a half, because there are validations before recording record by record.

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