At 15:53 +0200 7-04-2008, Michele Neri wrote:
>FBtoC is slower but could handle correctly the following code:
>
>dim as container gCont
>gCont = ""
>gCont += string$( 255, "a") + "test"
>print gCont
>
>FB is faster but emits a string length error for that code.
>
>In this particular case, when the left term is a container and the 
>first item in the right term is a string:
>
>- FBtoC parses each items in the concatenation and add they to a 
>temp container that is copied to the left term.

Actually the temp container must be used only if one of the term at 
right of the "=" sign is the same as the left term:

i.e.

gCont += gCont + "ssssss"

FBtoC could be adpted to use the temp container only in that case. 
This way the speed must be the same as  FB for the case [2] of RP's 
example.

Michele.