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Yes, it is efficient. It's not fast. It does several things that no other DBM (that I know of) does:

It handles nested Perl hashes and arrays to any level
The file is ftp'able across OSes and endian-ness
It is Pure-Perl, which means it's easily deployed on Windows
If you use the tie interface, you only make a change in one place in your program and the rest of your program thinks it's using a regular variable.

Hence, given what I know about your problem, this sounds like a really good first-pass to see if memory thrashing is your root issue.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Expanding Two demensional arrays by dragonchild
in thread Expanding Two demensional arrays by pigal

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