I have no idea of gdc, but with dmd you may want to play around with flags like -inline and -nofloat and see if and how it has an effect on the performance. Henning -- v4sw7Yhw4ln0pr7Ock2/3ma7uLw5Xm0l6/7DGKi2e6t6ELNSTVXb7AHIMOen5a2Xs5Mr2g5ACPR hackerkey.com