[pcmaster]

So, after doing some profiling on the timer plugin we use (Zipcore's), I have found out that two functions are slowing down the server a lot.
By a lot, I mean ~690µs/player, 5 times per second, causing the server to have svms spikes up to 100.

These two are:

1st:

PHP Code:

public Native_GetBestRound(Handle:plugin, numParams)
{
    new client = GetNativeCell(1);
    new style = GetNativeCell(2);
    new track = GetNativeCell(3);
    
    decl String:auth[32];
    GetClientAuthString(client, auth, sizeof(auth));
    
    if(GetArraySize(g_hCache[style][track]) <= 0)
        return false;
    
    for (new i = 0; i < GetArraySize(g_hCache[style][track]); i++)
    {
        new nCache[RecordCache];
        GetArrayArray(g_hCache[style][track], i, nCache[0]);
        
        if (StrEqual(nCache[Auth], auth))
        {
            SetNativeCellRef(4, nCache[Time]);
            SetNativeCellRef(5, nCache[Jumps]);
            return true;
        }
    }
    
    return false;
} 


2nd:

PHP Code:

public Native_GetStyleRank(Handle:plugin, numParams)
{
    new client = GetNativeCell(1);
    new track = GetNativeCell(2);
    new style = GetNativeCell(3);
    
    decl String:auth[32];
    GetClientAuthString(client, auth, sizeof(auth));
    
    for (new i = 0; i < GetArraySize(g_hCache[style][track]); i++)
    {
        new nCache[RecordCache];
        GetArrayArray(g_hCache[style][track], i, nCache[0]);
        
        if (StrEqual(nCache[Auth], auth))
            return i+1;
    }
    
    return 0;
} 


</span>My suspicion is that the GetArrayArray and String-comparison takes a long time.

Is there a way to optimize them somehow? Or do I have to cache their values somhow (altough this will again cause lags when calling them..
Any help is appreciated!