>>>>Rather than Macro substitute your variable, you might prefer to use the EVALUATE function.
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>>>That's the case when macro substitution is more efficient because it's evaluated only once when statement is executed not for every row as EVALUATE().
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>>In my test, EVALUATE() executed 6 times for 2 records.
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>For 2 displayed records or for 2 records total in the table against which BROWSE is run?

2 records in the table, and both met the condition. With 3 records, it executed 8 times, and 4 records 10 times,so there appears to 2 times per record and 2 executions of other overhead.