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[mecej4]

Paul, I am uneasy about drawing conclusions from the timings alone. The test code does not have any of the bugs that /checkmate would have caught. Therefore, if the compiled code simply skipped doing the checks, or did only perfunctory checking, the output would still be correct and the program would just run faster.

I presume that the code for doing the checking is split between code in the user's EXE and in checking helper routines in SALFLIBC64.DLL. Therefore, if the old DLL did thorough checking whereas the new DLL did not, and most of the overhead for checking is incurred in the DLL, the speed difference could be explained.

I don't know how to dig into this question further. Do you think that test code that does have subscript overruns, uninitialised variables, etc., should be used instead?

[PaulLaidler]

I am assuming that, one way or another, the problem has been resolved.

I suggest that you check this out again when the next full release becomes available (which will be "very soon").