Mixing JASS and GUI and references local variables.

Being that UMSWE is as good as it is with adding all the JASS functions in the form of GUI, it remains powerful enough to do what I want, so I don't want to take the time to thoroughly learn JASS yet.

TO get my feet wet though, here's what I would like to accomplish:

I have a bunch of strings, full of numbers. The only reason for the strings is ease of data entry, and once the map loads the strings will never be used again.

What I am going to do, is take all the strings(probably like, 30 of them) and assign them to a single Integer Array in the form a matrix. That's fine and dandy and I know how to do all that, but what I would like is to do some of this in JASS(i think).

Would using a local variable for my matrix be any faster than using a global pre-defined variable? All i'm trying to get out of this is the most speed, because I would be accessing data in the matrix several hundred times every 5 seconds of the game time, sometimes maybe even thousands depending on what the player is doing.

That's a tough problem you're having here with the number matrix. I think doing it in GUI or JASS would result with the same delay(s) but maybe there's a way to pass through all lag - the kind of things only Lord Vexorian knows -

In case you did not figure it out (but I guess you did as you say) you can use con(something like concentrated mixed with alternate o_•) text strings to put text together in 1 text string