V4RB: Win performance dragging

[Eric Baumgartner]

I'm seeing a very strange speed issue where creating a new Valentina 
database on Win XP and  Win Me takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds, 
while creating the same database on Mac OS X and Classic takes about 
a second. It's not just my Windows box; I've had reports from beta 
testers that my app takes around 10 seconds to create a new database 
file.

I've been trying to trace this back on the assumption that it's my 
code, but now I can reproduce the symptoms using the Three Tables 
example project that comes with Valentina. I'm using RB 4.5.2 and 
V4RB 1.9.7, my build machine in an iBook running OS X 10.2.4.

I added a touch of profiling code to the example, but otherwise it's 
exactly as I downloaded it.

The compiled OS X app, running on my 600MHz iBook, completes the 
following line of code (found in the File/New menu handler of the app 
object) in about 0.5 or 0.6 seconds.

res = w.mDataBase.Create( f, 4, 32 * 1024 )

The compiled Windows app, running on my 1.7GHz Dell Celeron, Win XP 
Home, takes about 6 seconds to complete the same line of code!

Does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this? Any 
chance moving up to the 1.9.8 betas will address it? I'm sure this 
isn't normal, but I'm at a loss to figure out what's wrong.

Eric