OK, so I worked through your suggestions:

  • Thanks
  • Got it. I was trying to be explicit in the debugging phase, but now that it's working I changed it per your suggestion.
  • OK. I had them declared early on becuase I thought I was getting an error declaring them within the sub-function, but apparently not. I changed them as you recommended and it works fine.
  • Thanks! Can the same trick be used on if (exists $mp3->{ID3v1}) {?
  • Yea, Part of that is because I kept changing the way I wanted to use those variables as my code evolved ... part of it's because I've only been working in Perl again for a few weeks after a 10+ year hiatus, and part of it's becuase I occasionally get warnings from Perl that calling certain array variables like @songinfo[0] would be better referenced as $songinfo[0]. Which makes me think I don't really understand Perl variables yet. So I just keep mucking with it (and plagiarizing other peoples code) 'till it does what I want.

    • After making the changes you suggested, the code seems to be ~10% faster, but I'm not sure. I'm going to add a timer and run it the old way and with your changes. We'll see.

    Thanks again for your suggestions.

    Mad Mac

    In reply to Re^2: Improving SQL speed by Mad_Mac
    in thread Improving SQL speed by Mad_Mac

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