# Is it worse to use \_global or lots of \_parents?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-worse-to-use--global-or-lots-of--parents/201522
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**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-worse-to-use--global-or-lots-of--parents/201522 "2006-09-22T02:00:59Z")
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### Author: ![Flaevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@Flaevo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Flaevo)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-worse-to-use--global-or-lots-of--parents/201522/1 "2006-09-22T02:00:59Z")

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So I have a huge project which involves lots of movie clips calling to eachother, is it better to set globals and call to those or do \_parent.\_parent.\_parent ( sometimes up to 4 \_parents? )

1. Will I run into any conflicts? I know \_root. is BAD because of externally loaded swfs and such.

2. Will it take more or less memory / cpu power perhaps?

3. Is there any disadvantages to using \_global besides it REALLY needs a unique name?

Thanks!