Friends,

My script uses way too much memory. I haven't ever use tie before. So I thought I could use Tie::File to store my data to disk rather than memory. Here's what I tried to do ... 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Tie::File;
use lib('.');

use board;
use hole;
use boardTree;

#
# create the holes
#
my $holeLevel = 0;
my @holes;
for my $i (0..15){
    $holeLevel = 1 if $i >0;
    $holeLevel = 2 if $i >2;
    $holeLevel = 3 if $i >5;
    $holeLevel = 4 if $i >9;
    push ( @holes, new hole( 'white', $i, $holeLevel, undef ) );
}
#
# link the holes
#
$holes[0]->setLinks(  [ $holes[1], $holes[2] ] );
$holes[1]->setLinks(  [ $holes[0], $holes[2], $holes[3], $holes[4] ] )
+;
$holes[2]->setLinks(  [ $holes[0], $holes[1], $holes[4], $holes[5] ] )
+;
$holes[3]->setLinks(  [ $holes[1], $holes[4], $holes[6], $holes[7] ] )
+;
$holes[4]->setLinks(  [ $holes[1], $holes[2], $holes[3], $holes[5], $h
+oles[7], $holes[8] ] );
$holes[5]->setLinks(  [ $holes[2], $holes[4], $holes[8], $holes[9] ] )
+;
$holes[6]->setLinks(  [ $holes[3], $holes[7], $holes[10], $holes[11] ]
+ );
$holes[7]->setLinks(  [ $holes[3], $holes[4], $holes[6], $holes[8], $h
+oles[11], $holes[12] ] );
$holes[8]->setLinks(  [ $holes[4], $holes[5], $holes[7], $holes[9], $h
+oles[12], $holes[13] ] );
$holes[9]->setLinks(  [ $holes[5], $holes[8], $holes[13], $holes[14] ]
+ );
$holes[10]->setLinks( [ $holes[6], $holes[11] ] );
$holes[11]->setLinks( [ $holes[6], $holes[7], $holes[10], $holes[12] ]
+ );
$holes[12]->setLinks( [ $holes[7], $holes[8], $holes[11], $holes[13] ]
+ );
$holes[13]->setLinks( [ $holes[8], $holes[9], $holes[12], $holes[14] ]
+ );
$holes[14]->setLinks( [ $holes[9], $holes[13] ] );

my $BT = new boardTree ( new board( \@holes, 0 ), 1, 1, [ new boardTre
+e( new board ( undef, 1 ), 1, 1, [] ) ] );

#
# lets try tie the boardTree object to a file
#
tie $BT, 'Tie::File', "thetiefile";

# I am guess that the script is dying because
# this will use up too much virtual memory and 
# the OS (Window XP) kills the script.
$BT->{'links'}[0]->makeLinks();
# I never get here because of memory issue
$BT->dumpPretty();

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... here's the output I get ... 
$ ./tieBoardTree.pl
Can't locate object method "TIESCALAR" via package "Tie::File" at
        ./tieBoardTree.pl line 47 (#1)
    (F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a pa
+ckage
    functioning as a class, but that package doesn't define that parti
+cular
    method, nor does any of its base classes.  See perlobj.
    
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Can't locate object method "TIESCALAR" via package "Tie::File"
+ at ./tieBoardTree.pl line 47.

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Like I said I have never used tie before. Maybe tie is completely the wrong thing to use here. If so what should I do?

Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.

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In reply to Should I be using tie for this? by Plankton

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