tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134759511126815909.post5694013619817766264..comments2023-08-20T04:10:01.095-04:00Comments on <a href="http://rogersaccessblog.blogspot.com/">Roger's Access Blog</a>: What’s the Difference Between Early Binding and Late Binding?Roger Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265719129831415014noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134759511126815909.post-9926336120280900292010-06-28T12:54:30.287-04:002010-06-28T12:54:30.287-04:00I hope I'm understanding your question correct...I hope I'm understanding your question correctly.<br /><br />Faster is a relative term. I havent done extensive benchmarking in a sufficient variety of circumstances to say exatly how much faster.<br /><br />In my personal experience, I can't say I've noticed significant difference in speed between early and late binding. So for me, portability is more important than speed.Roger Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12265719129831415014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8134759511126815909.post-56766779298981484072010-06-28T12:24:30.189-04:002010-06-28T12:24:30.189-04:00This is a most excellent, succinct discussion of t...This is a most excellent, succinct discussion of this confusing subject. Let me present another facet of the question.<br />I am an in-house developer/user writing data-mining and -reporting routines. I often import legacy and inter-departmental reports distributed in Excel into Access databases and create Access reports with embedded Excel charts to be published as .PDFs.<br />Are you suggesting that Early Binding executes sufficiently faster to violate the portability of Late Binding, particularly in a situation where an application is only available to the machine on which it was created?HartJFhttp://joseph.hart@palmer.edunoreply@blogger.com