Serialization

[eternal scaffold]

Is text compression/serialization only really helpful for DataStores or can it be used to take up less memory in general? (e.g. a table in a module script located in ReplicatedStorage that stores hundreds of animation ids)

[proper widget]

you should mostly only be using serialization in datastores or through networking

basically any large data should probably be serialized

[hexed tundra]

yup, to save space and make data transmission faster

or you could also encrypt it for safety if that concerns you