Hi monks,
I have been working on a web based bioinformatics program written in Perl by a non programmer.
My goal is to try and make it work faster. One thing I noticed is that the program creates huge hashes (millions of keys) that are the same nearly every time (according to the input).
What I did was create these hashes before hand, and store them using Storable.
Then, each time the program runs, I retrieve them, thus saving a lot of time (it works in about half the time now)
Problem is, retrieving the hashes still takes a very expensive 12 seconds (out of 18 seconds it takes the program to run).

My questions are:

1)Whether there are other serialization modules that are faster than Storable?

2)Any other word of advice how to make very large hashes work faster?

I know the best solution is to try and rewrite the program, but I'm not sure that's an option now. I also tried to store the data in a DB, but the program then requires many DB calls which takes too much time.
Thanks in advance,
mrguy123

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. - Poul Anderson

In reply to Fast(er) serialization in Perl by mrguy123

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