>>Wow, 7 times? What's your expressions that you're using? You've seen my numbers...
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>7 times is a guess, I've been eyeballing it ;-)


I see about a 4 to 1 difference with your code (2.052, 8.218). The difference is that I was only doing one side of the equal sign for the macro, and you're doing the whole statement with the &.


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

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