Does "one run" mean one command-line execution of the script?

Each time I create a new "key" for a value is a run (perhaps I should have used a different word). Therefore I am doing over a million runs.

Apart from that, it's probably more a question of algorithm

Like I said, it's a fairly complex program that uses several different modules. Trying to explain the algorithm is pretty complicated. My intent was to get some clues and tips on how to run the program more efficiently, which I did, and will hopefully get some more.

And how often do you have to come up with "normalized keys" for a million entries?

Once per customer, since we're doing a version upgrade, and the "normalized keys" is a new feature. We have quite a few customers, so its fairly important.

In reply to Re^2: Making my Perl program a bit faster by mrguy123
in thread Making my Perl program a bit faster by mrguy123

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