# How to best keep track of loads of data

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**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-best-keep-track-of-loads-of-data/262879 "2008-06-10T19:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-best-keep-track-of-loads-of-data/262879/1 "2008-06-10T19:00:20Z")

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I know. .the subject blows. I couldn’t think of what to name the thread.

Basically I have an application where a lot of strings are being sent… There are 1-10 “main categories” and then subcats.

(ie: {“name”,“john”}, {“age”,“25”}, {“name”,“matt”} etc…);

What would be the best (and fastest) way of keeping track of these, and being able to sort through them in a decent way? Objects was where I started but after googling a bit it seems Objects in AS3 are among the slowest datatypes available.

Thanks for any advice. And those name/age thing are just examples btw ; )