>Ok, your mileage will vary...
>with the procedure built into the calling program: .7661 seconds
>with the procedure external to calling program: 6.0516
>with the procedure external + set procedure to: .7994
>above + comment out the procedure myproc line: .8080
>procedure built into main + set proc to main: .8122
>
>The test was very similar to the way my program works, ie, the main program was a loop (for x = 1 to 100000) with do mytest in the loop.
>Procedure mytest just did a dummy variable assignment and then returned to the calling program.

Thanks for the info, Todd.