Package Data vs Global Variables

Currently I am working on a security module and the design of the program requires me to store all user rights(previllege) in as flags. When security checks in required, I simply reference these pre-initialised flags.

One solution is to initialised a list of global variables and set the flag when the form is first instantiated. Another solution is to declare this list of flag in a package data section and then initialised it also when the form start up.

My question is which method is better?
By storing the list of variables(possibly ~100s) in a package, it will be available throughout the session. But that will take up memory on the server side !
Assuming I have 60 users, wouldn't it have a severe impact on the server performance?

Thanks. Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 05:33:45 CET