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I believe that if i get a 32bit integer which uniquely defines the string then the storage and comparison operations will be much faster.

That's exactly what a hash does; with the additional benefit that it deals with collisions, if they occur, automatically.

So store your strings in a hash; lookup is very fast and memory management is taken care of.

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