> > That's probably windows doing caching. > I had the same follow-up, but it does not really make sense as a difference between 4.7 and 4.7.03, assuming he is running exactly the same scripts.
There would have been more calls to file i/o in 4.7 then in 4.7.03, since 4.7 reads the files one character (!) at a time, whereas 4.7.03 reads the whole file at once. Of course, a small script file is almost certainly going to be cached by Windows in memory in both cases, so there is not really more true i/o, just more calls to the file routines. But I don't see a reason why 4.7.03 should result in significantly _more_ i/o to run a whole script. I guessed it was the pre-scanning for labels, but that is ruled out if he gets much faster results by restarting PowerPro, since the pre- scanning is done in this case too. Still, its worth testing the file i/o but waiting before restarting PowerPro, but it would be a head-scratcher if that makes a difference.
