Kind Monks: Unfortunately, this question only arose due to my hardware being a 486, so I guess the proper answer would be to buy a new computer, but i digress...
I have a big hash of lists, like so: 
$cords{1} = [a,b];
$cords{2} = [c,d];
...
$cords{9999} = [w,x];
$cords{10000} = [y,z];

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The list items a..z are calculated by a complex algorythm, which unfortunately takes 6 minutes to compute all 10000 hash elements. Not being the best programmer in the world, I need to test my script a lot, which gets pretty tedious waiting for the hash to be populated, so...
Can I save it to disk? The nums it calculates are always the same, so thats no problem. I need to maintain the structure obviously, is there some way of doing this?

In reply to Saving a %hash by smitz

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