Thanks tachyon, that's great.

I did compile the original C code as a C program and use it for comparisons with the perl version when I was working on this, though that was some time ago. The C was obviously much faster.

Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I still live in the "nothing I must compile myself" perl world.

I do have a version of 5.8.1 that I compiled with Borland that works, but every time I've tried to use modules that require compilation in conjunction with that build, I spend hours or days trying to hack the build into working. I'm ashamed to say that I gave up and went back to being a AS dependant.

Thanks to the number of kind folks around that make binary versions of those modules that AS haven't gotten around to yet, I rarely encounter a module that I cannot install and use in short order, given the appropriate googling.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
Hooray!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Fast string hash in portable perl? by BrowserUk
in thread Fast string hash in portable perl? by jhanna

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