Joeel: Your code won't stand up to the competition as everybody else has better optimized code, which is part of the requirements.

I've also got word back from Ruud, he confirmed that there's a bug in the FORMATNUMBER() function. He has already provided me with a private build that should eliminate the bug. However, I will have to test this first and report back to Ruud.

With regards to the 'loop 100 times' issue: The 'run time' display will show whether your code can run within the allotted time, so I'm flexible on that one. I choose '100' as an relatively arbitrary number which would translate to about 2 hours per loop. Two hours seemed very reasonable to me.

I will beef up the reporting part a little bit so that the processing time will also be reported on a per-CD basis.

I'm also going to investigate the 'Can be optimized by 0.00%' issue. However, I believe it's just a display problem, as the length calculations are accurate to four digits but I'm only displaying two digits. I will modify the code accordingly.

The determination whether there's room for improvement is water-tight, however, I will double-check this, too.

[ 12. March 2003, 16:41: Message edited by: sealeopard ]
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