Is looping through real objects laggier than looping through strings or values?

Help and Feedback Scripting Support
#1

I just wanted to know which one would cause more lag.

for i,v in ipairs(folder:GetChildren()) do

end

or

local container = {} -- stores important objects

for i,v in pairs(container) do

end
#2

I’m not sure what the difference is or what you mean by “important objects” in comparison to the folder’s children, but if there is a difference, it’s definitely negligible. What matters more, if anything, is the size of the array/dictionary and the actual operation that the loop is repeatedly doing.

#3

Like storing important objects only instead of storing the whole character:

local container = {}

table.insert(container, {Root = root})

for i,v in pairs(container) do
	
end
#4

the only difference here would be from calling :GetChildren()

1 Like