Is IstringMap interface the best to find a string in a list?

[Gintaras]

Macro Macro1996

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out

;create list of random strings for testing
str sList sFind
rep 1000
,sFind.RandomString(10 10 "a-z")
,sList.addline(sFind)
;out sList

;create map. Add indices now. Time 1100 us.
IStringMap m=CreateStringMap(1|2)
int i=1; str s
foreach(s sList) m.IntAdd(s i); i+1

;find string and get its index. Time 2 us.
if(!m.IntGet(sFind i)) i=0
out i