Hello you all 
I have a question about writing into / referring to entries in an array.
I have an array that I store names of players in. Each player has their own ID already and since I never “FOR” through the array, I figured I’d use the player ID as the array ID (to be able to refer to the entries of the array by the ID of the player).
The problem / reason for this thread is, some players have relatively high IDs (up in the thousands)… so my question is- does anyone know if Actionscript “reserves” the unused spots in an array while creating it? Like- if the loop in which I fill it ends up setting~
arrayname[1] = “Something”;
arrayname[100] = “Something”;
arrayname[1000] = “Something”;
~is the array 1000 entries long or 3? If I use “length” on it, it gives me “1000” (the highest used Array-ID) - but does it actually use up a few bits or bytes of RAM for reserving the empty spots in between?
I am working on increasing the performance of my Actionscript and I don’t want to eat up system performance by carrying around a 8000-entry array that only has 20 players stored in it…
I am assuming that Actionscript doesn’t clog up performance for something that isn’t there… but I could be wrong- you never know, with Actionscript 
Thanks in advance!
