[LambdaLambda]

Oh, okey.

I will play with this, and post here in case of any problems. Cheers!

[Mathias.]

Originally Posted by m_bNightstalker I think you misunderstood what I'm trying to say. You have posted code from an older version of the timer, thats why I thought you "just" modify it. Anyway, you should use ADT Arrays, so you need no MAX_CACHE and it's compiling faster. You can sort those arrays to, thats not a problem. I had the same problem some days ago: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=255581 Asherkin told me to use SortADTArrayCustom and it's working great.

I agree with you but since when we care about compiling time?

[m_bNightstalker]

Originally Posted by Black-Rabbit I agree with you but since when we care about compiling time?

Thats just a positive side effect, the main problem is your compiler will crash when your array is too big.

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Originally Posted by LambdaLambda I've found that when I'm trying to compile plugin with variable that would have to handle 200000 different records, its crashing during compiling. 100000 does fine.

[Mathias.]

oh gotcha, my bad

[LambdaLambda]

Wait, but with usage of adt_array you still got to declare it's matrix. So I don't really these advantages.

[Mathias.]

you supose to know your structure size, it the amount if index that is dynamic

[Potato Uno]

The inner block size of the adt_array needs to be specified, but the number of elements inside it doesn't need to be known.

For example, suppose I want an array to store a bunch of strings. I don't know how many strings there will be, but I will know that each of them will be < 200 characters in length. Therefore, I can shove in as many strings as I want into the adt_array (up to the RAM limit of course) as long as they are < 200 characters in length.

If they are > 200 characters, it's truncated to 200.

So this:

PHP Code:

new String:Names[100][200]; 


means I can only store 100 strings in it, and each can at most have 200 letters in them.

This:

PHP Code:

new Handle:Names = CreateArray(200); 


means I can store as many strings as I want (no limit, whereas prior to that I had a limit of 100), but only strings that are <= length 200 only (anything > 200 is truncated to 200 characters).

Of course, you can set the block size to some arbitrarily big number that you will never hit to have pseudo-totally-dynamic arrays.

[m_bNightstalker]

Originally Posted by LambdaLambda Wait, but with usage of adt_array you still got to declare it's matrix. So I don't really these advantages.

I've posted already a working example, olny the sorting part is missing:
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=255581

[LambdaLambda]

Your example requires matrix declaration. The difference between these then is only the way you access to that data.

[ClassicGuzzi]

Why don't you just use queries to the database? I mean you could get the info in any way you want and sorted, plus if you make threaded sql queries, it won't lag the server (if you have a lot of people on your database).