I see something like this really coming into play where you want a dynamic constant ...... What I mean is....you are expect a given type of data to be returned, but that actual data value can change over time.

I agree that the global variable is much less overhead. but when dealing with simple values, I had to loop into the 100k mark to stat to really notice a difference in @msecs between the 2 methods.

Has anyone ever have any dealings with FORTH?