>I see about a 4 to 1 difference with your code (2.052, 8.218).

I see 20 for & and 3 for ()

>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 &.

I changed the code to do that, and it mader no difference, it was stil nearly 7 times faster.

Unfortuantly, I'll probably get no takers on my bet, thanks to you ;-)