tilly:
"As for writing your own storage method, I would strongly discourage people from doing that unless they already know, for instance, the internals of how a dbm works. And if someone comes back and asks me for that, my response will be that if they have to ask, the odds are that I can't teach them enough about the subject to do any better than they can do just by using the already existing wheel.And this is definitely true if they think they can build their wheel in Perl."


Given the precise knowledge of the data's signature, the seeker said something about 12 byte keys e.g., one can build very fine wheels using optimized algorithms, with perl or without.
Naturally a starting point would be to look at a DBM implementation, but I wonder why in a Seekers of Perl Wisdom section one would recommend not going the hard way and learn a lot of stuff.

And if you can't teach him/her, there might either be others who can or the seeker might just go his own way and find out himself.

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 4: millions of records in a Hash by Buggs
in thread millions of records in a Hash by johnkj

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