>Wow, 7 times? What's your expressions that you're using? You've seen my numbers...

7 times is a guess, I've been eyeballing it ;-)

Acatually I ran this program, and differnet variations, where it create a different variable name every time (ok every 1023 times :-), and () always creams &.

clear
release all

?'Store: '
nsec = seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000000
	store 'test' to ('t1')
endfor
?seconds() - nsec

?'Macro: '
nsec = seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000000
	lcCommand = 't2="test"'
	&lcCommand
endfor
?seconds() - nsec

?'Store: '
nsec = seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000000
	store 'test' to ('t1')
endfor
?seconds() - nsec


?'Macro: '
nsec = seconds()
for x = 1 to 1000000
	lcCommand = 't2="test"'
	&lcCommand
endfor
?seconds() - nsec