Memory footprint should be a far greater issue than the size of the program IMHO because disk is way bigger and cheaper than RAM.

>As for program size, I'm referring to the resulting p-code file (i.e. the size of the .FXP file). Not that it contradicts what you just said -- just clarifying my claim of larger program size. Each refrence to a #DEFINE constants result in a copy of the same constant value within the p-code file. Unless the compiler "pools" or "folds" these values into one common copy, your resulting p-code file can begin to balloon in size (in this case, I'm talking the effect of #DEFINEs for string constants). Numerics and other simple values generally don't pose much of a problem -- they are small enough not make too much difference. Strings on the other hand could pose more of a problem due to larger size.