Will putting an excessive amount of empty strings in a table cause lag

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#1

As the title says, I’m wondering if putting an excessive amount (possibly in the thousands) of empty strings in a table used to save data cause lag or bad performance?

Example,

local data_table = {
  "needed_value",
  "needed_value2",
  "", -- insert hundreds of blank values
}
#2

Data Stores can only handle up to about 4 megabytes of Data, which is roughly 4 million characters

It shouldn’t cause lag depending on what you’re doing with it, looping through the Array may take a really long time for the Server to process due to the large amount of keys within the Array, but i dont believe it will cause lag that way, the Server is generally fast with these kinds of things.

#3

If it’s looped through on the client would it cause client-lag or no?

#4

I dont think so, Like i said It depends on what you are trying to do with it. However i could be wrong on the information so not sure.

Just note that its very efficient and you shouldnt experience lag of any sorts depending on how much is there.

#5

It won’t necessarily cause lag, but it might take more time to load some data with more characters rather than loading one key.

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