You'd think this would be faster, but NO!!!!!! [Resolved]

[SMcNeill]

@TerryRitchie

I know, right? I think this one still has the devs a bit mystified. I had Steve mesmerized for days the time I pulled a rabbit out of my hat. He said it caught him off guard, because he was so used to me pulling ideas out of my other end. Ah, misdirection, my favorite tool in my SCREEN ZERO magic kit!

Pete

I knews it twasn't so, ya varmit!  Function calls always have overhead attached to them, so you'll always be faster to go with a variable when you can like this.  My code above proved to ya that 3 SCREEN calls weren't as fast as 1 SCREEN call and then 3 variable calls.  I just hadn't dug through the code enough to search out where your actual roadblock was at -- though it seems Matt has did that for us already, Mr. Reused-H!!  ;D