[calculus87]

Okay,
my question is this. Which is faster on execution, and why?

1)storing data in a vector of strings
or
2) opening a file and storing the data in the file.

note: there is about 800 pages of data.
note: I will also be accessing the data several times in the program

[Regicide]

When you have a huge amount of varibles, or a couple with huge range of arrays (i.e. char szArray[100000][100000]) the program is going to run alittle slower and might crash. This is because, as you probably already know, everytime you make a varible or an array C++ stores that information in a Hexidecimal value somewhere on your motherboard. For example, look at the szArray, it has 10,000,000,000 (10 BILLION) places for possible characters! So, if C++ (for example) stores the being character (szArray[0][0]) at 171, szArray[100000][10000] is going to be at 10,000,000,171! It is my opinion that you use a file to store the data and only use a couple varibles. This has a less chance of slowing down and crashing. But, you'll need to systematicly store all the information so you can then retrieve it with a formula easily.