This is not a question of our talking on an equal level.
This is a question of you saying something very silly and
then refusing to believe us when we said it was silly. If
you want a large high-performance data structure on disk that
you access in the same pattern that you would a hash, it is
a bad idea to try to roll your own in Perl.
It isn't a question of being open to the possibilities.
It is a question of having sufficient technical knowledge
and judgement to identify counter-productive approaches
before you waste energy implementing them. |