Saving/Loading 250 Global Values to/from INI

[DaveC]

G'day,
I've been planning my next iOS game (haven't quite finished my current one lols) and I'm wondering if this idea will cause me problems..? what I want is this, at the start of the game, the player loads his saved data, this will transfer around 250 ini entries into 250 global values, just once, at the start of the game. Then whenever the player saves his game, it will pause and write those same 250 global values back into their corresponding ini entries.. so my question(s)

1 - will global values have a noticeable impact on the games performance, especially if there's 250+!?
2 - should I expect any trouble writing that much data at once to an ini file..? what would happen if the player quit while the game was saving?

[Reale]

an intersting question and as someone who knows virtualy nothing about how to use the ini.object i cant really answer your question but i would likie to see the results... you could do a test run with a lower starting point and increase until it breaks lol

[Keith]

I have see little to no impact on performance by using large INI files (random reading from thousands of lines) or writing to INI files with several to a dozen values many times throughout an app. Given the cross-platform nature of the INI file I think it's a great container for this type of data.

[Morbus Crohn]

What do you guys think of arrays? I have the same problem as the op but i think i will go with arrays... I am not sure if there is a big performace difference...

[DaveC]

thanks for the info Keith, looks like I can continue planning with this method in mind ^_^ Morbus, I've use arrays in the past.. they're very similar to INI's however IMO slightly less user friendly. With an INI you can very easily open it up to see what is written and where, but with arrays it's not so simple..