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Post From: Fast Persistent Variables

[2025-10-24 18:43:54]
Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 21358
The map is used because the integers can be any value. If you use a value of 1000000, it would make a vector, 1 million elements and using a huge amount of memory. The memory allocation could also likely fail.

No, it will be the opposite:
I guess if we have 1000s of persistent variables for a study the map search will be faster, than the vector search.

We do not understand this:

But I guess it's always better to have std::vector<int>* as persistent pointer rather than std::vector<persistent ints> if you wanted a large number of variables.

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