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Asked: 2026-05-21T02:59:08+00:00

I have a class called Person The person class stores 6 bits of data

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I have a class called Person

The person class stores 6 bits of data

System generated ID (integer)
Name
Age
Website URL
Number (float)
Number (float)

I want to store this object and access it later.

Would be be a good idea storing it in an NSDictionary (or NSMutableDictionary) or using an NSArray (or NSMutableArray)

The types of tasks I will be performing are

  1. Searching
  2. Adding new items
  3. Removing items

Eventually I’ll be writing my class out to disk and reading it when the application launches.

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  1. Editorial Team

    How many Person objects do you intend to store? Which attributes do you intend to search for them by?

    If you want to be able to look up a person by any of those attributes, you would need six dictionaries to do so at full O(1) dictionary efficiency. With an array you could get O(n) in general, or you could sort by one key and get O(logN) for that key and O(n) for the others.

    In the interests of simplicity, unless you have a very large number of Person objects, I would suggest using an array.

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