>Whoops, that's what I did (using EVAL() in the STORE command gets you an error about using an array as a function or something like that).

Yeah, I got that, didn't understand it though.

>Anyways, a loop of 1 million takes 37.805 seconds for the &, and 33.868 for the named expression. Same million passes for a variable were 6.149 for the &, and 2.604 for the EVAL().

Using "STORE" with "()" is about 7 times faster than "&" and "=" as far as I can tell.