>Mark,
>
>I ran mine on a Compaq P200 with 88MB ram and I got times MUCH faster than yours, and with an even larger percentage difference:
>
>Straight Code: 1.555
>As Variable : 0.717
>As Define : 1.252

OK, I just re-ran this. I now get similar results -

Straight Code: 0.631
As Variable : 0.463
As Define : 0.638

I have no idea what went wrong the first time. I feel muuuuch better now.