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[Dr Super Good]

Unless one really needs to bulk store stuff, hashtables are probably the way to go since they are perfect for sparse storage. When it comes to the case of dozens of joined arrays, they might even perform faster.

For bulk storage you are probably stuck with joined arrays since at large numbers of elements the hashtables start to degrade from O(1) to O(n) in internal lookup complexity (people have reported they can become extremely slow).

 

[edo494]

"people have reported they can become extremly slow" I would want to see some real values, not empty words

 

[Wietlol]

Xonok (I think) told me hashtables become slower the more data is inside them.
I can see why.

But where to save the data doesnt really matter.
We dont need 100% efficiency because there is not much happening at all.
What I do want to know is how I can save everything (inside hashtables for now) so I can find my objects very easily.

 

[Xonok]

Afaik the hashtable slowdown isn't all that bad. Someone tested that even at around a million entries it only degraded somewhat.