salutations, we have a piece of code that uses the "Storable" module for storing a large hash in a file "hash.txt". then, another code retrieves this file into a hash, using the "retrieve" code. look (the retrieval part): 
#!c:/perl/bin/perl
use Storable;
%dict = %{retrieve("hash.txt")}; #retrieves the file into the hash %di
+ct.

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the file "hash.txt" is very large (28 MB), whose hash contains 385090 pairs of keys and values. thus, the "retrieve" command takes about 7 seconds to load the file. when we tested a "hash.txt" file with 58 MB, it took even longer (nearly 16 seconds) to load the hash from the file. of course, after loading the file, obtaining a value from the hash is very fast; the problem is the loading of the hash from "hash.txt". does anyone have some idea to speed up the loading of the hash? thank you in advance.

In reply to storable: too slow retrieval of big file. by pc2

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