item database query

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Originally Posted by Googi

If you really want to know, test both methods by using a timeout. Have a script start a timeout, do some stuff (probably quite a bit of stuff) using the first method, and then save the value of the timeout to a variable/echo it/whatever. Then do the same with the second method (of course, make sure that the stuff done with the second method is the same as for the first).

Directly accessing the value is systematically faster than accessing the value and comparing a bunch of values inside. ( It could be slower on loading up, but once loaded, it is fairly fast ).