I have a requirement where I need to bucket a hash and then pass this smaller hash to an thread to perform some job.

Below is a sample code which I have written which can create an array of hashes which can be used later to pass on to each threads. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use integer;
use Data::Dumper;

my %hash = ( 1 => 'a',
            2 => 'b',
            3 => 'c',
            4 => 'd' );

my $size = keys %hash;

print "Total keys are $size\n";
my $numSplit = 2;

my $diffCount = $size / $numSplit;
my @keys = keys %hash;
my @arrHash;
my %hash2;
for my $i (0 .. $diffCount - 1) {
    my $start = $i * $diffCount;
    my $end = $i * $diffCount + $diffCount - 1;
    my %hash1;
    for my $j($start .. $end) {
        my $key = $keys[$j];
        my $value = $hash{$keys[$j]};
        $hash1{$key} = $value;
    }
    print Dumper(\%hash1);
    push(@arrHash, \%hash1);
}
print Dumper(\@arrHash);

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But I am looking for more efficient way to do as the total number of keys can be anywhere from 2500 to 10000.

In reply to How to bucket an Hash by techman2006

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