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Good point. I've always found BerkeleyDB to be more than sufficient for anything like this. I'd recommend it over most of the other dbmish inplementations.

-Blake

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Re: Re: Re: Re: I need speed...
by perrin (Chancellor) on Oct 08, 2001 at 00:27 UTC
    BerkeleyDB is good if you can use the BerkeleyDB module with it's advanced locking interface, but for most things with short keys and short values SDBM_File is much faster, not to mention much easier to use. This application looks like an ideal fit for it.
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      He mentioned potentially hundreds of thousands of cached IDs.
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        I've never heard of any limitations on number of keys with SDBM_File on Unix, only on the size of key and value data.
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