IBO searches in metadata for Domains and SQL types after a miss on
field name. That creates two extra searches (alas in memory) per
operation on fields without entries.

Is FieldEntryType set to anything? If it is try setting it to [].

/Dany

> OK Enrico has supplied a sample program built with FIB and IBO. His own
> machines take 12 and 29 seconds for the IBO version to open, and less
> than 1 and 3 seconds for the IBO.
>
> My own machine takes 8 seconds against less than one second. I would

not

> be too worried about the 8 seconds, but I can see the problem.
>
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