VFP does stay around in the background, but including your setup code in a single top-level script would not work because:

1. Each channel is a separate instance of VFP, so having the code run once in your top-level script would only run the setup code in a single channel.

2. FoxWeb runs some SET commands before each script:
    * SET commands and initialization
    SET ANSI OFF
    SET PATH TO
    SET TALK OFF
    SET NOTIFY OFF
    SET NEAR OFF
    SET EXACT OFF
    SET DELETED ON
    SET SAFETY OFF
    SET ESCAPE OFF
    SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
    SET MEMOWIDTH TO 1024
    SET DEVELOPMENT ON
    SET CLOCK OFF
    SET CURSOR OFF
    SET BELL OFF
    SET BLINK OFF
    SET ECHO OFF
    SET FULLPATH ON
    SET SYSFORMATS ON
    SET CENTURY ON
    SET REPROCESS TO 2 SECONDS
    SET DATE AMERICAN

3. Whenever a script error occurs, the channel is restarted.

It is really not a problem to run your SET commands with every request.  On my desktop computer I can run the above code over 2 thousand times per second.

Now, if there is other initialization code that you would like to optimize, such as instantiation of COM servers or other variables, you should do so in your FW_ENTER.PRG as follows:

IF TYPE('M.HasInitialized') = 'U'
    PUBLIC HasInitialized
    HasInitialized = .T.
    ... Add your initalization code here...
ENDIF

The code inside the IF statement will only get run once per channel.

FoxWeb Support Team
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