| Borland | Digital Mars | Intel | Visual C++ 6 | Visual C++ 7.1 | Average | |
| findfile_sequence + searchspec_sequence | 251,919 | 57,867 | 2,450,290 | 49,566 | 129,108 | 587,750 |
| enhanced findfile_sequence | 221,846 | 51,342 | 2,023,730 | 36,156 | 95,465 | 485,708 |
| Saving | 11.9% | 11.3% | 17.4% | 27.1% | 26.1% | 17.4% |