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Originally Posted by nosoop StringMaps are great for temporary mappings that should last as long as the plugin, but the serialization is very much DIY.

If serialization is necessary then switching to a KeyValues-based methodmap is okay, but I'd rather write a conversion method from a StringMap to KeyValues and eat that performance cost then, when serialization is used, rather than on every call into the KeyValues structure.

Either way works, but that's my two cents